(May 20, 2016 at 10:34 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Yup. They would be excellent choices. But they're not on the ticket.
I'm voting blue because I'm voting for 3, maybe 4 Supreme Court nominees. If/when Bernie is out, then the only positive that can come from a Clinton presidency is that we will likely have a majority liberal/moderate SCOTUS. With all of these RFRA laws being challenged, the endless onslaught of Obamacare challenges, these transgender discrimination laws that are being challenged, the laws limiting equal protection for LGBTQ+ individuals being challenged, we just saw what the GOP is doing in Texas/Oklahoma---all of those laws will be challenged.
Those are my fucking principles. I won't be a squalling child throwing a tantrum because I didn't get my way. I will vote to do everything I can to protect the social progress we have made in the last 10 years. The LGBTQ+ community deserves nothing less.
For those naive enough to think that just because Trump is making all these wild promises that he won't even nominate one hyper-conservative SC Justice, you are just dumping your head in the sand.
Protecting those principles is important, and keeping the progress moving forward is vital. Punishing states like North Carolina and others who continue to allow discrimination is a necessity. Their argument about it being religious discrimination is very very flawed. The bathroom argument needs to stop, who the hell cares about a damn public restroom this much? The only thing they have an argument about is peeping toms and those who would abuse the system to commit sex crimes. Other then that they have no argument, it seems to me they re used some of there anti-same sex marriage talking points and turned lose on the transgender population. I'm in 100% agreement with Steel on the rights of LGBT people. They deserve all the legal protection we can give them. I'm hoping that the secondary strategy follows through; she gets indicted and the nomination goes to Sanders. If that happens I hope Sanders can reinvent the Democratic party. It would be a win-win for everyone; the Republicans get there sought after conviction, and we can get our progressive change through Sanders. The only faction that gets left holding the bag are those in the Hillary camp. If that were to happen and Sanders did win, do you think he would grant her a full pardon?
