Is this spring actually a good time to bring three smart mouthed teenage transgender kids across the southern US? If I had an extra quarter of a million dollars (I really don’t) it might be worth it to stock up an RV with gay books and sex education books and Plan B and go from high school to high school.
That would be good trouble.
It will be trouble one way or another. I’ve been talking to the mama of the third trans teenager we would probably bring with us to the states if we went. She was a trucker in the states for ten years. She’s a tough as nails lady. She’s scared thinking of what might happen given Trump winning the election if our kids run their mouths at a truck stop. I mean, sure, we could try to avoid the south. My friends in Oregon are dealing with outbreaks of violence from Proud Boys in their neighbourhoods. Fuck.
I left because I didn’t feel safe and I didn’t think my kids were safe. Almost 73 million people just voted for Trump. There are ~346,078,398 people in the US. ~22% is under 18 and can’t vote. There are almost 270 million adults in the US. That means a little over half of the adults who live in the united states vote. 1/4 of the people who live there just voted into the highest office a terrifying man. No. I can’t go back. Sorry grandparents.
I need to move forward. Not back.
My kids are a lot like me. They draw the lightning. People want to hit them for being different. It’s happened in a variety of states and countries at this point. We are irritating motherfuckers. We are literally doing our best to conform. Doesn’t matter. We aren’t someone or others version of “normal” and they believe they have the right to hit people who aren’t normal.
To some degree we learn how to fight and there are a lot of kinds of fights we are good at winning. No one wins every fight. No one. Mostly though, plan A is avoiding as many fights as possible.
These election results primarily due to the failure of the Democratic party.
In 2020 Harris was the choice of the DNC elites, she is willing to be a figurehead and let the corporate war machine have their way. Tulsi Gabbard so utterly destroyed her in the debate her campaign was over after that.
So the DNC pivoted to the next best thing, a dementia case who would effectively be the same, they then put Harris as the running mate.
All the while Bernie Sanders was the one winning over the public.
The DNC manipulated the primary with the help of mainstrem media to make certain Biden got the nomination.. They straight up cheated the Iowa primary.
Then they brought everyone into line. The Progressive wing of the party was completely dismantled. Bernie abandoned his principled, AOC stopped picketing Pelosi’s office and became her lap dog instead.
And the very word Progressive got apropriated by the worst establishment Democrats the movement opposed.
Then after being told by over and over that Biden is “Sharp as a tack” it finally became obvious to everyone that we were being lied to.
So the DNC swaps in Harris without giving anyone a vote in the matter.
I don’t like that the only alternative is Trump. Both are terrible options. But it’s only 4 years sand perhaps the Democratic party will start respecting democracy again and we can get someone who isn’t awful next time.
Until then I would stay far away,. Things are going to get ugly.