This deep dive reveals how political apathy, media complicity, and historical prejudice pave the way for escalating authoritarianism and violent extremism.
They're not interested in saving lives. Those in power are NOT rational people. Money is their God. They are cruel, sadistic, masochistic, irresponsible, uneducated, and unapologetic about their inhumanity. ... and, YES, Kamala Harris won the election. and, NO, there will not be free and fair elections going forward. ... it's no fun. It's TOTALLY unpleasant, BUT WAKE UP!!!
I apologize (although no has to wade through what I've written) for the length of this comment. There is so much to say today about so many of our problems, yet this comment doesn't begin to touch on more than a few. It is the longest comment I've ever written.
I don't necessarily agree with every detail, but I absolutely agree with the message and intensity of both Wajahat and Danielle. I respect their passion and wish that even 40% of Americans were open to hearing their message and taking it seriously.
This country was founded in genocide, theft, and racism. Right now, the Republicans are desperately trying to erase the reality of a country that has fed on hatred throughout its history. It is possible that the biggest problem we have is the apathy and ignornce of so many millions of Americans who are selfish. I say that because those characteristics make everything worse.
Most of the issues this country should be focused on don't even appear on a list of issues that mattered to voters in 2024. Wajahat and Danielle focus, based on this video, on issues of social and human justice and war. Both of those should be high on every Americans "critical" list. However, there is an issue not mentioned in this video: climate change. In 2024, a PEW poll reported that 11% of Republicans thought climate change was important. My point in mentioning this is that all of the issues that Wajahat and Danielle focused on here will be made much worse by climate change. Admittedly, it seems like a less immediate issue given what Trump and Republicans are doing right now. However, behind all the injustice is the horrendous fact that Trump is making climate change worse.
Climate change & Transgender Righte. What do they have in common? I looked back at the Gallup Poll from 2024. The only issue ranked lower than climate change was transgender rights.
However, there was a catch. Of all the 21 issues Gallup listed, the one that concerned Republicans and Republican-leaning "Independents" less than transgender rights was climate change. It seems virtually no Republican considers climate change extremely important. That is not a surprise. However, a greater percentage of that group considers trans rights extremely important than climate change. The percentage of people overall who think climate change is to some degree more important than trans rights was much higher. As an issue today, I mean right this minute, trans rights are, in my opinion more important than is climate change. But I strongly believe we had good reason to actively support significant action on climate change forty five years ago. That was just science. As with all issues involving human rights, change only comes when enough people are 1) aware of the issue and 2) understand it. No one should have been unaware of climate change after 19??. I could answer 1980, but to be generous, I'll give it another 10 years. So, IMO, we should have as a nation been moving aggressively to limit our carbon footprint 35 years ago. It is easy to say the same about trans rights, because all human beings should have the same rights and dignity, but let's face it 45 or even 35 years ago, very few Americans knew anything about trans people. Thirty-five years ago, the vast majority of gay people were still in the closet and countless Americans would have said they didn't know a single gay person. Of course, they did, they just weren't aware of it. The situation was even worse for the trans community. I lived in Colorado and in Trinidad (CO) there was a doctor who did the most trans surgery of anyone in the country. And almost no one I knew realized he even existed.
Obama was opposed to gay marriage, and with the even less visible and understood status of trans people, it is not surprising that they weren't prominent at all in people's thinking. Today, that is less true, but still, if you ask people do they know anyone who is trans, you won't get many "yes" answers. I have only personally known one trans person and one hermaphrodite in my life. The trans person I met in the 80s, but she didn't come out until less than a decade ago.
People have to care in order for an issue to matter. And most Americans just don't care at all about the rights of trans people, with the exception being trans women competing in sports.
Trump and Republicans are treating trans people the way they treat democracy -- they are trying to erase both.
The only reason to say that climate change is "more important" than trans rights is because it will have a much more universal and catastrophic effect on everyone. But we should never minimize the danger and injustice that any bigotry causes. Just because there aren't very many (statistically) trans people in the US is not a reason to rate their treatment as anything less than extremely important. A sixty year old trans person has much more to worry about from how they are treated than what climate change is likely to do to them while they are still alive. I'm old now, but I am profoundly saddened and angry at what we are doing to the future for the entire population of the world, except, perhaps, the very wealthy who may be able to insulate themselves from many of its worst effects. But maybe not. My concern today for trans people is actually greater, in a way, than it is for climate change, because trans people are being harmed today for no reason except bigotry and I consider much of that bigotry to based in religion. I'll be dead before climate change does its worst, but trans people are already living in Hell in this country.
For the record, I am an old, straight, white male. I'll be dead before climate change does its worst, but I am still far more "afraid" of it than I am of any trans person, since I'm not at all afraid of any trans person or what they might do.
And how, I mean how do we get our representatives to listen to us? I can't even imagine how many letters, emails and phone calls I made to my representatives and Joe Biden, absolutely nothing was done. And it put the orange tootsie roll, back in power. They do not listen, we have to make them listen.
I love you both so much. It works because you are both humans with loving hearts first. Thank you for being my safe space and my anger translators for all these years. This Juneteeth is rough, but I know I am not alone and I know that I can live my truth and use my gifts to make a difference. Partly thanks to democracyish and Danielle and Waj!! Thank you, sukriya, mihavum nantri, muchas gracias.
They're not interested in saving lives. Those in power are NOT rational people. Money is their God. They are cruel, sadistic, masochistic, irresponsible, uneducated, and unapologetic about their inhumanity. ... and, YES, Kamala Harris won the election. and, NO, there will not be free and fair elections going forward. ... it's no fun. It's TOTALLY unpleasant, BUT WAKE UP!!!
you guys need to get an interview w/ Indivisible!
Truth. Love y’all.
Vote vote and till then vote with your feet !
I apologize (although no has to wade through what I've written) for the length of this comment. There is so much to say today about so many of our problems, yet this comment doesn't begin to touch on more than a few. It is the longest comment I've ever written.
I don't necessarily agree with every detail, but I absolutely agree with the message and intensity of both Wajahat and Danielle. I respect their passion and wish that even 40% of Americans were open to hearing their message and taking it seriously.
This country was founded in genocide, theft, and racism. Right now, the Republicans are desperately trying to erase the reality of a country that has fed on hatred throughout its history. It is possible that the biggest problem we have is the apathy and ignornce of so many millions of Americans who are selfish. I say that because those characteristics make everything worse.
Most of the issues this country should be focused on don't even appear on a list of issues that mattered to voters in 2024. Wajahat and Danielle focus, based on this video, on issues of social and human justice and war. Both of those should be high on every Americans "critical" list. However, there is an issue not mentioned in this video: climate change. In 2024, a PEW poll reported that 11% of Republicans thought climate change was important. My point in mentioning this is that all of the issues that Wajahat and Danielle focused on here will be made much worse by climate change. Admittedly, it seems like a less immediate issue given what Trump and Republicans are doing right now. However, behind all the injustice is the horrendous fact that Trump is making climate change worse.
Climate change & Transgender Righte. What do they have in common? I looked back at the Gallup Poll from 2024. The only issue ranked lower than climate change was transgender rights.
However, there was a catch. Of all the 21 issues Gallup listed, the one that concerned Republicans and Republican-leaning "Independents" less than transgender rights was climate change. It seems virtually no Republican considers climate change extremely important. That is not a surprise. However, a greater percentage of that group considers trans rights extremely important than climate change. The percentage of people overall who think climate change is to some degree more important than trans rights was much higher. As an issue today, I mean right this minute, trans rights are, in my opinion more important than is climate change. But I strongly believe we had good reason to actively support significant action on climate change forty five years ago. That was just science. As with all issues involving human rights, change only comes when enough people are 1) aware of the issue and 2) understand it. No one should have been unaware of climate change after 19??. I could answer 1980, but to be generous, I'll give it another 10 years. So, IMO, we should have as a nation been moving aggressively to limit our carbon footprint 35 years ago. It is easy to say the same about trans rights, because all human beings should have the same rights and dignity, but let's face it 45 or even 35 years ago, very few Americans knew anything about trans people. Thirty-five years ago, the vast majority of gay people were still in the closet and countless Americans would have said they didn't know a single gay person. Of course, they did, they just weren't aware of it. The situation was even worse for the trans community. I lived in Colorado and in Trinidad (CO) there was a doctor who did the most trans surgery of anyone in the country. And almost no one I knew realized he even existed.
Obama was opposed to gay marriage, and with the even less visible and understood status of trans people, it is not surprising that they weren't prominent at all in people's thinking. Today, that is less true, but still, if you ask people do they know anyone who is trans, you won't get many "yes" answers. I have only personally known one trans person and one hermaphrodite in my life. The trans person I met in the 80s, but she didn't come out until less than a decade ago.
People have to care in order for an issue to matter. And most Americans just don't care at all about the rights of trans people, with the exception being trans women competing in sports.
Trump and Republicans are treating trans people the way they treat democracy -- they are trying to erase both.
The only reason to say that climate change is "more important" than trans rights is because it will have a much more universal and catastrophic effect on everyone. But we should never minimize the danger and injustice that any bigotry causes. Just because there aren't very many (statistically) trans people in the US is not a reason to rate their treatment as anything less than extremely important. A sixty year old trans person has much more to worry about from how they are treated than what climate change is likely to do to them while they are still alive. I'm old now, but I am profoundly saddened and angry at what we are doing to the future for the entire population of the world, except, perhaps, the very wealthy who may be able to insulate themselves from many of its worst effects. But maybe not. My concern today for trans people is actually greater, in a way, than it is for climate change, because trans people are being harmed today for no reason except bigotry and I consider much of that bigotry to based in religion. I'll be dead before climate change does its worst, but trans people are already living in Hell in this country.
For the record, I am an old, straight, white male. I'll be dead before climate change does its worst, but I am still far more "afraid" of it than I am of any trans person, since I'm not at all afraid of any trans person or what they might do.
Well, I read your post and agree. Especially since my own adult son is trans.
Hard truth bombs were dropped today. THANK YOU.
And how, I mean how do we get our representatives to listen to us? I can't even imagine how many letters, emails and phone calls I made to my representatives and Joe Biden, absolutely nothing was done. And it put the orange tootsie roll, back in power. They do not listen, we have to make them listen.
My sister would not vote after the DNC betrayal of Bernie. And the Biden Kamala’s lying about Palenstine. Plus, Elon stole the election for Trump.
Please stop blaming non-voting voters. Blame the fucking DNC AND Dem party
If there's anywhere that needs a regime change, it has to be the US.
I love you both so much. It works because you are both humans with loving hearts first. Thank you for being my safe space and my anger translators for all these years. This Juneteeth is rough, but I know I am not alone and I know that I can live my truth and use my gifts to make a difference. Partly thanks to democracyish and Danielle and Waj!! Thank you, sukriya, mihavum nantri, muchas gracias.
And the blowback....whose gonna have ro deal with THAT hell?? A Democrat President.
Thank you for the history lesson and a reminder of our true history.
Tucker Carlson: even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Waj, I always have unknown blinders ripped off when I watch your videos, thank you!
I love both of you SO much. You sustain me. Subscriber here. 🥰
https://www.yahoo.com/news/afghan-ally-detained-ice-immigration-225300436.html
meanwhile our brown folks are being illegally held and disappeared
I don’t think your opinion of the Democrats should be mentioned besides what this guy has just said about President Biden is UNTRUE!!