Summary
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a memo prioritizing federal funding for communities with marriage and birth rates above the national average.
The directive, which applies to grants, loans, and contracts, also prioritizes projects benefiting families with young children.
A congressional aide criticized the policy, saying, “Considering fertility rates when prioritizing federal grants? We obviously have no idea what the full impact of that will be… It’s absolutely creepy. It’s a little ‘Chinese government.’”
The memo also blocks mask mandates and requires compliance with immigration enforcement.
They weren’t completely ignored by Harris. She could have done a lot more (in particular to distance herself from Biden), but she did try to appeal to them at least once.
The problem is that even doing that wasn’t going to help much because the propaganda campaign to paint her as the pro-genocide candidate was already floating around enough that low information tik tok voters were likely nudged primarily against her.
Regardless, if my family was being butchered in that situation IDK how I’d react but I know the rational decision was still to prevent the fascist that actively hates Palestinians from winning.
But obviously voters are not rational.
I consider it a necessary act of non-violence to point out the cynicism of this viewpoint, especially because there is an avalanche of evidence and common sense that points to the fact that democrats at the top never even really gave voters a chance to prove the cynicism of this viewpoint wrong which I think it is reasonable to argue necessitated the conditions where the only outcome remaining possible was to prove the cynicism of this viewpoint right.
to be clear, fuck Trump, I know republicans are worse, that isn’t the point.