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2020 Democratic Presidential Primary | OT | Hickenlooper makes it to the debate
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The question I have is, which one of our democratic leaders is going to address Fosta/Sesta and try to repeal it? Which one of these candidates is going to stand up for sex workers rights? Which one, if any of these candidates is sex positive? For as progressive as some of these politicians are, finding one that gives a damn about sex workers right is next to impossible.
None of them. Everyone in the Senate supported it, and Kamala co-sponsored it.
To get to that conversation you need to get to the point where you're talking about legalization first.
Without that, the legitimate trafficking issues they were targeting leave sex workers an externality they're not particularly concerned with.
That's just sad guys. Sex workers right seems like the last frontier in this country. No matter how progressive someone is, they can still have shit opinions on sexual expression and sex workers rights. My wife studies this very closely and its just sad to see we're chasms away from addressing this stuff properly.
That also applies to trans and enby people in a way
we can either support a dem candidate that will very little for us or the republican candidate will marginalize us and exclude us even more
and no, no democratic candidate does enough for gender non-conforming people.
Sex workers are not a politically powerful constituency and nobody wants to have to defend themselves from attacks that they favor human trafficking. Explaining why SESTA/FOSTA is bad is not a task that any of the candidates want and none of them are skilled enough to pull it off.
Sounds like a job for known Person of Means™, Howard Shultz.
I'd say this sounds about right. I'd be surprised if even 10% of democratic voters list sex workers' rights as even a top 5 issue. There just isn't national traction for progressing on that issue.
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A newsworthy post of a known extremely racist person endorsing her and what I thought was her current response to said endorsement.
Hope she explains further how she'd expand protecting civil rights as a matter of national security when she is President.
Going after white supremacist terror groups as part of the campaign platform would be an unexpected but pleasant surprise that actually leverages her background to make it a positive.
Yeah, I'm curious to see if this is just some one-off tweet or if the idea of treating white supremacist organizations and other hate groups as terrorist organizations will actually be a significant part of her campaign because, as you said, that's an area where she can leverage her past to her advantage.
I wouldn't read too much into this - it's not dissimilar from arguments that liberals made in favor of civil rights during the Cold War. It's accurate, but rhetorical.
Warren oppo
Yeah, Warren dug her own grave long ago.
Hasn't been tried since then either. Gore ran away from Clinton, though he did win the primary.
She's a straight up overton window/trial balloon candidate at this point and that's fine.
welp
I might actually agree with you here
Wish Harris and Bernie wouldn't steal Stacey Abrams spotlight tonight.
She actually is really playing to her strengths
really though? do you think anyone stole Kennedy's spotlight last time. I mean come on these things usually mean nothing.
You gotta build up your tolerance for next year when there will be like 10 responses lol
I don't agree. Just seems like taking advantage and diluting the message for some extra PR. But w/e not the end of the world.
She did a facebook livestream "prebuttal thing". Which, in theory is kinda bad. In practice, it was on facebook live, so it's unlikely many people saw it.
The dirty laundry of everyone running will be aired from now until November 2020. Bernie has plenty to show for as well and I hope he leaves the race as soon as possible.
Warren is done. This even conflicts with her explanation of the Harvard application, that video she did, etc... that it was because of her "background",
She was literally going around claiming to be an actual Native American Indian.
She was literally going around claiming to be an actual Native American Indian.
I feel like Warren's only way out is owning up to it and repudiating it. Has she done that yet? That's her only chance to make it. Even then, she's been doubling down for so long that she's pretty dead in the water I think already.
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