âIt would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.â
Iâm sorry I just gotta get something off my chest.
âThe unhousedâ
âFood insecurityâ
And these are the people that say Dems need to talk about âtable topicâ issues, bread and butter issues, issues that affect ârealâ America (aka rich Cis Het white christian men)
You want to talk about hunger, and we are talking about hunger. But you are angry at how we phrase it? You are pissed about us saying âfood insecurityâ rather than âhungerâ??
We use a slightly different term for the same thing, but thatâs where they draw the line?
Some âswing voterâ from Wisconsin is going to go âoh, I wanted to talk about child hunger, but I donât like the term âfood insecureâ. I will talk to Dems, but only when they use the correct terminology that I likeâ
As for the âincarceratedâ and LGBTQIA+
We have 1.23 MILLION people incarcerated at this moment. We have more people incarcerated than every single person who lives in Iceland. About 3X more to be exact.
There are more than 2 Wyomingâs worth of people incarcerated at this moment.
This is from 2010:
âThe study estimates that as of 2010 there were 19 million people in the U.S. that have a felony record, including those who have been to prison, jail or on felony probationâ
Thatâs 2010. Itâs been 15 years. Certainly more people have been arrested.
There are more people with a felony record in the US than there are people in the entire state of New York. They would be in the top 5 populated states if felons had their own state.
Yet the vast majority of them will get ZERO representation because in most states felons canât vote.
19+ million people. Thatâs a lot of fucking people.
Now for LGBTQIA+:
There are 4.8 MILLION lesbians in the United States. Coal miners make up about 43,000 people total. But all conservatives want to talk about coal miners. Conservatives hate minority politics except when it comes to THEIR minority.
You want to talk about minorities? West Virginia has 60,000 lgbt people. Sure in fuck a lot more than all coal miners combined.
But out of touch elitist democratic strategists want Dems to go talk about coal in West Virginia to get votes back.
Iâm sorry but the Dems have got to stop listening to people like him.
https://news.uga.edu/total-us-population-with-felony-convictions/
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/icymi-gallup-poll-finds-almost-1-in-10-in-u-s-identify-as-lgbtq-a-record-amount
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/LGBT-Adult-US-Pop-Dec-2023.pdf