Apparently Republican lawmakers are at odds with their own voters when it
comes to the culture wars on the LGBTQ community,
and that's according to a new survey that was done by data for progress.
Here's what they found.
Let's take a look at this graph which will give you a sense of where
American voters and it's broken up by political ideology.
And it shows that 72% of Democrats, 65% of independents and
55% of Republican voters think that there is too much legislation
aimed at limiting the rights of transgender and gay people in America.
Voters are also seeing through Republicans idea of so called woke identities.
So the poll also found that 57% of likely voters overall agree
that transgender identities occur naturally when free societies
permit individuals to identify outside of societal norms,
whereas only 33% view transgender identities as a woke invention.
So I wanna go back to the first part of this poll was because I was actually
a little surprised to see that 55% of Republican voters are like, yeah,
this is just culture war nonsense and it's unnecessary because
it seems like they love it if you watch corporate mainstream media.
But it turns out no republican voters are just like everyone else.
They see the culture war as a big distraction.
They also want lawmakers to improve their quality of life and
their material conditions.
But there really aren't many politicians who are willing to do that.
So in lieu of political representation that benefits and improves their lives,
they just go along with the right wingers who own the Libs,
that's the way I read this.
I'm curious what you think?
>> I, yeah, I can't say that I'm that shocked by it in the sense
that even if you are some rabid right winger foaming at the mouth and
wanting to hurt and be cruel to trans people.
In real life they don't interact with trans people,
at their school there are no trans kids.
This is a very small segment of the population.
This is not the same as vaccines and
COVID shutdowns where everybody can't send their kids to school,
where everybody can't go to the mall or a bar or a restaurant,
this is just not something that's occurring in their lives.
It's just not and you just see the amount of oxygen that this
stuff gets on TV and from their politicians as compared to what
they're actually interfacing with every single day.
I'm not surprised that people can see that this seems like a freaking, it's theater.
They don't see it out in their lives.
So that's why I think they can see this clearly and just like this is crap.
>> No, absolutely, and look,
obviously the percentages of people seeing this as a culture war issue, that's
like unnecessary changes significantly from Democrats to Republicans.
So with Democrats, it's 72% of them say that the amount of anti
LGBTQ legislation is excessive, the number goes down to 55% for Republicans.
But it's still a majority of Republican voters who feel this way,
which is I think good news especially with the way that the right wing
is kind of painted in left wing corporate media thinking about MS NBC.
Let's just keep it real.
But to your point was, yeah,
it is taking up a lot of the energy both in newscasts and
also with what Republican lawmakers on a state level are up to.
For instance, there have been nearly 430 separate bills that have moved or
are moving through the state legislature this year pertaining to restricting or
limiting the rights of LGBTQ individuals.
At least 10 states have banned gender affirming care for minors.
And another 21 have introduced bills.
19 states have also banned transgender students from participating in school
sports matching their gender identity.
16 states have offered bills that would restrict or
ban drag performances in public spaces.
And if the calculation here is that the Republican candidates in
future elections will do well by running on these issues,
I think the midterms will show you not necessarily.
So just a quick refresher,
the 2022 midterms really delved into these issues heavily.
Republicans in midterm races are embracing anti-trans rhetoric like never before.
And that is a headline on November 3rd of 2022 but
it seems to have backfired to some extent.
Let's go to graphic five analysis, voters repudiate attacks on trans youth and
midterm.
And survey showed midterm voters cared strongly about abortion access and
trans rights while disapproving of Trump brand election denialism as younger
people and independents broke for Democrats despite widespread disapproval
of President Joe Biden and concern about the economy and high inflation.
So final word on this I'll give to you was what do you think really happened there?
Do you think that the anti trans rhetoric and
policy coming from Republicans really did persuade young voters who
otherwise hate Joe Biden and the Democratic Party to vote, to get active?
>> No, I think it's the contempt for right wing voters by right wing
politicians that have kind of doomed them here you can have the first part, but
you have to translate it into something that actually affects these folks lives.
For instance, the affirmative action thing, right?
Like where you can say to voters of all races,
by the way, who aren't black specifically.
Like yo these left wingers, they're so crazy,
they wanna help the black people at all cause even at the the expense of you,
person who wants their kid to go to a good college.
So many Americans on both sides of the spectrum are trying to get their
kids into college, so you can make that connection like, right?
We're willing to follow you and then okay, yeah, this is somehow screwing me.
On the other end I understand that with the trans thing it's like there's no
trans kids at my kids' school.
I don't have any transparent in my neighborhood.
I don't see trans stuff ever.
And all these people ever wanna do is talk about
trans stuff cooper when does it actually start to affect my own life?
And I think it's that miscalculation like these people have a very high level of
contempt for their voting base, and it shows with stuff like this trans
stuff that doesn't compute and doesn't translate.
People are not that stupid, even right wingers guys.
>> Yeah, now I think you're right, I think you're right about that.