(@DKW 86 @AUFAN78 Here's another post maybe simplifying the point I'm trying to make in the opening.)
You're right....it ISNT about politcs!
But Wait? Which political party in America makes 'protecting children' a central part of it's platform and talks about it all the time?
REPUBLICANS! You may eagerly yell out with your hand waving in the air.
*Correct!*
Now......How do Republicans say and campaign that they will protect the children? What do the activists say? What do the politicians make laws against? What do they campaign on?
1. Keeping transgender women out of womens bathrooms
2. drag show bans
3. keeping sex education out of schools
4. Books about gay/trans/sex being banned from libraries children have access to.
5. banning teachers/schools from teaching or talking about gay/trans/sex issues.
Noble and needed agenda items you may say, eagerly nodding in agreement with those items.
BUT.........
Where and how are children in real life...in our everyday communities actually being harmed and abused?
How often are trangendered people assaulting women in public restrooms? sure, it's possible...it may happen on rare occasions around the nation....but how common/likely is it?
How often are kids being abused because they were taught about gay issues or sex in school by a teacher? '
How often are kids being abused by the ideas they read in books in the school library?
What tangible impact are all these laws and rules, primarily pushed by Republicans, actually having on protecting kids?
Whose more likely to abuse any given child in America? A trangendered, a drag performer, a liberal activist...........or is it a community member, a teacher, a clergy member, a family friend, your own family members?
which of these groups do you see local news articles wayyy, wayyy too often about in child abuse cases? And cases like the one in my opening post aren't making national news as much. they stay relatively local. They are also happening every day..all across the nation...to an untold number of children.
Yet....The gays!...The Books!...The Trans!....Must protect the children!!! We're such good and noble people thinking about the children!.....yet....where are the children actually...in real life....being abused?