(This post is a week overdue but I'm still ruminating on "what, I'm not *allowed* to do [x]"- no, you're allowed, and I'm allowed to remove myself from the situation)

My Carly Rae Jepsen stan mode has been activated

"Why can't democrats win elections?!" say the dinosaurs as they deliberately bury themselves in the asteroid dust ☄️

(Part 2 of 2) So I asked which of the congressman's offices I should leave this statement and the staffer hem/hawed until I said "so you're just not taking statements criticizing Tom Suozzi?" then I called him pathetic, and hung up.

God forbid I leave a POLITICAL statement for my CONGRESSMAN!

the tldr is that the anti-trans voters who care enough about the issue to change votes will only change votes if Dems promise to eliminate trans people from society. But showing weakness on protecting trans rights could potentially lose millions of Dem base votes.