HRC Article:
WASHINGTON — Last night, President Biden signed the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law, which includes a provision inserted by Speaker Mike Johnson blocking healthcare for the transgender children of military servicemembers. This provision, the first anti-LGBTQ+ federal law enacted since the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, will rip medically necessary care from the transgender children of thousands of military families – families who make incredible sacrifices in defense of the country each and every day. The last anti-LGBTQ+ federal law that explicitly targeted military servicemembers was Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, which went into effect in 1994.
Biden’s press release:
No service member should have to decide between their family’s health care access and their call to serve our Nation.
If it’s the only option.
But it’s kinda like the Mcgriddle. I don’t even want to be at McDonalds. I’m just taking the best they’ve got.
That’s life, the only way to push the country left, is to keep electing people who can be pushed left. Obama/Biden were against gay marriage in 2008, they legalized it in 2015.
What do you think “pushed left” looks like? Because it’s certainly not a round of handshakes and “I know you tried your best, I’m with you no matter what” when they abandon the issues you care about. This is the pushing.
Brother, I grew up in the 80s through 12 straight years of Republican dominance. Do you wanna what happened during those times?
Incarceration rates skyrocketed due to the war on drugs.
Reagan blamed gays for the aids epidemic.
Corporate money exploding in DC and Republicans blocking every bill to limit downvoting with their super majorities.
The list goes on and on.
Ok? So did I. Reagan is the most significant single cause of many of our problems today. That doesn’t answer the question. What do you think “pushing left” looks like?
Pushing left is the left getting angry at Democrats when they’re abandoned. The far right do it all the time. A lot of incumbents lost their seats for compromising on their shitty issues, but the end result is that the party feared them and went right.