I have read your posts in meticulaous detail, my friend. The closest you have come to actually fulfilling the requests have been a bland quote that is rife with generalities that signify nothing, certainly not the hate-filled rhetoric you so desperately want to believe.
🙄 I see you want to play your silly games. This is what you do. When you disagree with someone and can't come up with an intelligent response to that person's comments, you complain about their comments being rife with generalities and expressing nothing of importance. I have seen you do this sooo many times on this board.
Frankly Dan, I could care less what you think about my posts on this issue except that I am glad to know you once again disagree with my position on this issue. You have been so wrong on this board so many times, why would anyone want you agreeing with them? When it comes to your opinion on political topics, one should only worry when you agree with them. That should seriously give one pause about their own position!
You might want to take note that your emotional appeals have been countered by factual references from virtually every other member of this board, from left to right.
No, not virtually every member. I guess you have missed or ignored those posters, including a few on the right, who have objected to what DeSantis is doing in Florida. Are the usual suspects on this board supporting a right-wing demagogue? Yep. But that isn't surprising at all.
btw, I find it hilarious that you claim my "emotional appeals" have been countered with factual references. So right-wingers calling those who disagree with them on this issue groomers and pedophiles is now considered a factual reference in your opinion? Those comments have nothing to do with emotion, is that what you are actually trying to claim?🙄
I've seen very few facts given in response to anything I or others have said in opposition to what DeSantis is doing. Really, about the only poster that has given a reasonable (but still misguided) response has been
@07pilt.
He's trying to get you to see that your argument seriously harms the leftist cause, because independent nonpartisan voters recognize it for the baloney it is. You're driving people into DeSantis' open arms.
I understand the point
@07pilt is making, but he is wrong. And again, I'm not surprised you agree with it, because you usually embrace the wrong position on most political issues (see my comments above).
Those who make the argument that
@07pilt is making are very similar to the Democrats who made the same argument back in the 1960s regarding civil rights. They are afraid of losing voters instead of standing up for what is right. It was right for Democrats, led by southern Democrats like LBJ, to embrace and pass civil rights. It was right for Democrats, led by men like northern Democrat Hubert Humphrey, to call for the party to move out of of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights, as Humphrey did at the 1948 Democratic Convention.
Plenty of Democrats responsed to this just like pilt is. They warned Democrats would lose the south, they warned Democrats would lose white voters, they warned Democrats would lose nonpartisan voters, they warned they were playing into the hands of racist politicians like George Wallace, etc. Heck, even LBJ acknowledged that Democrats had probably lost the South for a generation after signing into law the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
But yet, he still signed the act into law. The Democratic Party didn't listen to those warning and worrying voices, because sometimes, the right thing to do may cost you votes in the short-term. But you do what is right anyways. You show backbone and character. You stand for something, instead of falling for everything.
This is a human rights issue. This is an issue about equality and treating all Americans the same, with the same decency and respect that all people are entitled to. This is about opposing bigotry once again. So whether this helps or hurts Democrats (and btw, we really don't know the answer to this because the polling has shown conflicting data), in the end, that doesn't matter. Standing up for human rights and equality while resisting bigotry is always the right choice for the Democratic Party.