by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I totally validate the anger and fear that the Trans movement has that has led it to collectively be really touchy. Ok, I get it. But my concern is if Trans people think they have it bad now, just wait until we’re an autocracy. And that’s exactly what we’re going to become when we elect our next Republican president, whomever that may be.
And if there is absolutely no willingness to compromise on the part of the Trans movement, all they’re doing is pushing Traditionalists into the arms of fucking fascists. It will be people on the edges of society, like the Trans, who will suffer most under our new fascist, autocratic regime.
And, yet, what I’m noticing is part of a number of broad macro trends that there is absolutely nothing we can do about. The United States continues to careen towards the existential choice of autocracy, civil war or military junta in late 2024, early 2025. The only way we might punt this particular problem down the road another presidential cycle is if anti-MAGA forces are united enough that we manage to get a Democrat elected.
Even that, of course, isn’t perfect because Republicans may cheat or Trump — if he is the nominee — will scream that the election was stolen from him and that, unto itself, will cause a civil war. The most likely way we have a civil war is if we just don’t know who POTUS as Inauguration Day begins to approach.
Anyway, the point is — no one listens to me and there’s nothing I can do or say that is going to change anyone’s opinion on this matter. All I can do is figure out what I believe in, in the real world, and potentially prepare for the worse without turning into a deranged prepper.
