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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Balint: Democrats should highlight GOP attacks on personal freedoms
On issues from the curriculum taught in schools to trans Americans access to healthcare, Democrats should focus their messaging on how their opponents policy proposals would threaten personal freedoms, U.S. Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) told the Washington Blade.
The Democratic Partys tendency to get into the minutiae doesnt always serve us well, as it is generally more effective to relay broader ideas about this fundamental American concept of freedom that elected Republicans are working to undermine, Balint said during an exclusive interview with the Washington Blade from her office on Tuesday.
We dont like being told what to do as Americans, she said, adding that the message resonates regardless of whether folks identify as liberals or conservatives, or whether they live in rural or urban areas: We dont want to be told what we can and cant learn about; what we can and cant talk about.
Government intrusion and overreach into otherwise private matters concerning healthcare and education has been a hallmark of policies enacted by GOP leaders like Floridas Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a presumptive but still undeclared candidate for the 2024 presidential race.
Examples have included banning books with LGBTQ characters and themes, last months rejection of an advanced African-American studies course, and the Florida Board of Medicines adoption of a policy threatening the licenses of medical providers who administer guideline-directed interventions for trans and gender nonconforming youth.
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/03/01/rep-balint-democrats-should-highlight-gop-attacks-on-personal-freedoms/
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)republianmushroom
(13,590 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)How little Democrats use Republicans own history in regards to legislation and blocking of legislation, against them.
We play whack a mole, and they just pop up somewhere else with some new invented outrage. Its hard to keep up.
Democrats are still not forceful enough. They need a giant sledge hammer to come down hard onto the whole whack a mole machine itself.
hadEnuf
(2,190 posts)When Republicans do government overreach it is not government overreach. It is good and pure and patriotic and all-American.
Did I miss anything?
nuxvomica
(12,423 posts)For people working in health care. She boasted that it was done to ensure "freedom". Around the same time, she co-sponsored a 15-week national abortion ban. So her idea of "freedom" includes keeping your job when you probably shouldn't but doesn't include having any control over your own goddam body!
CaptainTruth
(6,590 posts)He & the GOP promote "freedumb," not "freedom."
calimary
(81,239 posts)Now is not the time to be nice.
Think of it this way: are THEY being nice about how and what theyre doing - against Democrats and anybody who isnt super wealthy?