I disagree with everything you said here.
I talk to a lot of people and have gay friends who are married and I never once hear someone talk about the importance of transgender rights and access to gender reassignment surgery. It just isn’t an issue that most people think about. It is a boogeyman created by righty media to say “see, look at how far off the rails they’ve gone.” Gender reassignment surgery and the desire for it is so rare as to be a non-issue for me and most people.
Now people do talk about things like wage stagnation in the face of higher costs of living, lack of social mobility, and opportunity being given out based on money and not skill. People are concerned about debt and the lies they were given regarding the benefits of taking on that debt for education. People are concerned about access to healthcare and being able to afford it. People are worried about being able to save enough so they can stop working before they turn 80. They see European countries providing social programs, like healthcare, for their citizens and wonder why that can’t be done here. The things the Democrats are proposing are not fringe, wacko ideas because they’ve been implemented in other countries with varying degrees of success. These are ideas that traditionally Republican voters support. The Republicans, in turn, resort to creating boogeymen like the army of shemales coming to turn your 6 year old son into a woman.
I agree, the open borders proposals of some Democrats are dumb ideas, and I hope they get weeded out through the primaries. We’ll see.
