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The name of the game is to keep the masses fighting over and focused on ephemeral shit that doesn't matter. Books, gays, lesbians, queers, trans, wokeness, CRT, religious tolerance, etc., This way the vast majority of the minority in this country are up in arms over what they see as threats to their way of life, as good good fearing christians. The real intent though is to keep them blond to how they're being used, abused, sold out, turned into a product, stripped of their rights, and incrementally silenced, all so the people they put in power can make a few extra bucks while rat fucking a system that is engineered from the ground up to reward lying, cheating, demogoguery, and inciting division. The worst part is that the busted ass system is so entwined in the essence of what it is to be "'Murican" that questioning it, looking for logic, or even commenting on the hypocrisy in the design is enough to get violently assaulted in some parts.
Rome 2.0 is burning, and our leaders have convinced us that all of us fiddling is best way to deal with it
You've basically summarized my thoughts on alk the culture war bullshit lately. None of it truly matters (besides the obvious "being queer should not be a death sentence"). Its all aa distraction while our rulers grab even more power for themselves.
I think I agree but from a different perspective.
The LGBTQ community and trans people in particular(among other minorities) are being targeted because they need something to rile people up in order to manipulate voters. Same goes for abortion. But this doesn't mean these issues don't matter. In small, big or very big ways, these issues still can affect people.
I think it's possible to do both: defend our rights while not losing sight from the other issues, like proper taxation, delaying global climate change, reducing poverty, achieving free health insurance, etc. And besides, this is anecdotal evidence but the people in favor of LGBT rights, IME, tend to also favor the other issues mentioned.
In no way did i mean to suggest, imply, or otherwise push the stance that the LGBTQ/Trans issues don't matter. They absolutely do. I fully recognize and complete support equality for all. Those communities are absolutely under attack by these closed minded conservative bigots. My phrasing was intended to convey that these communities pose no direct threat, of any kind, to the folks frothing at the mouth for their continued marginalization.
As you pointed out, they make easy targets to be lambasted in order to distract from the real issues of the day and conflating their cause with anything having to do with social, environmental, or economic responsibility or reform is an easy way to get the electorate to vote against their own self interest. So long as we're made at each other for things we can't change and the majority of us don't understand, we don't have time or resources to be mad at those actually making life hard for the rest of us.
To put your point slightly different: These issues don't matter to those who aren't affected by them.
The ones opposing these issues are almost exclusively not people who have any first-hand (or second-hand) experience with the topic at hand.
It's a pure moral panic that is used to distract, at the expense of people who are seriously affected by these moral panic attacks. So of course these people fight back, because it's their existance that is threatened. And that gives a really nice distraction about the issues that really should be changed (power structures, corruption, screwed election systems, ...)