I disagree based purely off of my own life and experiences. The shift rightward over the past 10 years is palpable. It's not surprising historically at all - the US has always been composed of almost entirely conservative, individualistic attitudes and then little pockets of progressiveness here and there. They never last, rather the hope is just to get as much done as fast as possible in that time frame.
Certainly, policy that would be unthinkable 15 years ago is par for the course now. I think that's just undeniable, and speaks to the radicalization of the US.
Take a deep breath, we're all gonna be okay.
While you are preparing brisket they are expecting to lose rights and have friends taken away. For them it is not going to be ok.
Everything will be okay, nobody is losing their rights. Try getting out of California/NYC some time.
Moving the goal post there isn't it?
I believe it's arguably clear the right to privacy and freedom of movement have been attacked/stripped though and those are constitutional rights.
Fuck right off about "gonna be okay", asshole.
Let's be specific:
In the "Gender" executive order, Sec 2(a) and Sec 3(d), the administration has set it up so that the passport, global entry, social security, or other identity document of any transgender American citizen can be scrutinized, denied in the future, or in an expansive reading, retroactively revoked.
Since all such changes require documentation, there is almost certainly a list of all such people, unless the previous administration was clever enough to destroy it.
For example, a valid document for this man https://www.uri.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/news/sites/16/20... (picked at random, a picture of an openly trans man who has stated as such on a website), can no longer list an M. A document with an M on it is subject to government scrutiny, for example at any border crossing or other location where identity may be verified. The government may now argue that such a document is not valid. If he has no documents with such an M marker, he can no longer obtain them. Additionally, he must use the women's room, per sec (4).
"We're all gonna be okay!" The federal government is simply subjecting trans people to increased scrutiny, limiting their freedom of speech and expression and their freedom of movement. "Nobody's gonna lose their rights."
But hey, enjoy your brisket, right? How's the price of milk doing?
There's no laws in America about how one dresses and presents themselves as long as its not a false identity.
Anyways, weren't you just arguing that IDs shouldn't even be required for trivial inconsequential stuff like voting?
I mean, descriptive information on an ID isn't used for like tying someones appearance to their name or anything, right?
So it makes sense for the news to say something like "the police are searching for a female suspect 5'9" " despite them looking similar to the person in rpearl's example.
That description will really help the public identify or be on the look out for that female, right?
The country is constantly on a knife edge. It takes only a tiny shift to cause a radical change in the power structure, and good reason to think that power structure will be used against you.
It is indeed remarkable that the country has achieved anything at all when it spends so much time cowering. Nor is that new, but modern media seem to give it more immediacy.