I have written about America’s potential slide into a state of governance that we no longer recognize as a democracy, but why is it so easy to go there?
Simply turning on the news one can see that the people attempting to destroy our democracy are doing it in the most historically utilized way. It begins by identifying groups of people they believe are both vulnerable and powerless to such an extent that they will not be able to fight back. Through history, these have been racial, religious, political or gender/sexuality minorities. These vulnerable groups of people become the oppressor’s straw men. Today I want to focus on how the Republican party is pathetically, sadly and infuriatingly using the LGBTQ community, in particular the transgender, non-binary community.
History has taken us here before. The concept of protecting “us” from “them” has worked very well throughout time.
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