Could Fareed Zakaria Show Us Where These Dems Who Only Talk About Pronouns Are?

[Nevilledog]

https://www.wonkette.com/could-fareed-zakaria-show-us-where-these-dems-who-only-talk-about-pronouns-are

Oh boy, another week, another op-ed about how Democrats can win elections if only they throw transgender people under the bus!

This week, we've got "radical centrist" Fareed Zakaria lecturing us in the Washington Post with a real doozy titled "Forget pronouns. Democrats need to become the party of building things," in which he imagines that he lives in some parallel universe in which Democratic politicians are spending all of their time advocating for trans people instead of, I suppose, "building things." I have not personally seen this and Zakaria offers literally zero examples of this happening, but I guess we have to take his word for it.

He kicks things off by noting that he got an email from Ron DeSantis (don't get too excited for him — this was fundraising, not a personal invite to his next flotilla) in which DeSantis tries to frighten people about the "woke mob."

“A new enemy has emerged from the shadows,” he continued, “that seeks to destroy and intimidate their way to a transformed state, and country, that you and I would hardly recognize.” As you might by now have guessed, “This enemy is the radical vigilante woke mob.”

What a thing for people who are mounting attacks against libraries and Disney to say!

Some of this is a clever effort by DeSantis to tap into the base of the Republican Party and outflank Donald Trump on the kinds of issues that propelled Trump to the Republican nomination in 2016.

Actually, one of Trump's big things was trying to claim, ridiculously, that he would be better for LGBTQ people than Democrats were, and was therefore able to scoop up a lot of support from younger Republicans who were less invested in that issue. Sure, he went on to do some pretty crappy things, particularly regarding trans people, but that was not how he presented himself in the beginning. Trolls were particularly fond of pointing out that Trump was the first president to go into office supporting same-sex marriage.

*snip*

[Nevilledog]

2. I disagree.

That's what they choose to highlight.


Last paragraph from Zakaria

This is not a perception problem. It is a reality problem. Democrats need to once more become the party that gets stuff done, builds things and makes government work for people. That’s a lot more important to most Americans than using the right pronouns.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

3. I missed that and I stand corrected.

The last line was unnecessary and regrettable.

I will self-delete.

[Nevilledog]

4. ...

[UTUSN]

5. He and MAHER give us hard headed advice.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

6. Fuck Fareed

Throwing us under the bus is right. That's exactly the point of this screed. More whining about "wokeness". More whining about pronouns. More whining about human rights. Why not? "I got mine, so fuck you!"

Why the hell isn't this asshole a member of the QOP? Seriously. He walks and talks like one...

I mean, sure. The Democrats should be the party of building things. We can start with human rights and equality and decency. Oh. Wait. That's exactly what Joe Biden and many other members of the Democratic party have been trying to do. Yeah, Fareed. I'm sorry. I consider it just as important - if not more important - to build a foundation of compassion and decency and respect and equality and human rights as I do building infrastructure and the economy and all of that.

I'm not going to be thrown under the bus... Not by the right... And sure as hell not by some jackass "radical centrist". I'm not here to be ran over by the fucking QOP so people like him can have theirs. Fuck. That. Shit.

I'm sorry that us damned queers are in the way and trying to live our lives.

Since Fareed has such a problem with human rights and pronouns and trans people and all that shit, maybe he should just go be a Republiqan goon already? Sounds like that party would do more to appease his "radical centrist bigotry" than the Democrats would.