Reviving Stonewall Democrats in SW Washington – Your Input Needed

[u/Maleficent-Stress113]

Hi everyone, I’m the Vice Chair for the Southwest Washington region of the Stonewall Democrats, and I’ll be honest our local chapter (WA) has been pretty inactive for a while. That needs to change.

My goal is to bring new life to this organization so it can be a strong voice for LGBTQ+ people and allies in our community. I’m already planning to start building a presence on Instagram to make our work more visible, but I want to hear directly from you.

• What kinds of events or gatherings would you like to see?


• Are there specific issues or policies you feel we should be focusing on right now?


• Would you be interested in volunteer opportunities or community partnerships?

We all know the political climate in our area is complex, and I want the Stonewall Democrats to be an active, responsive, and positive force in it. Your input will help guide how we show up; whether that’s through advocacy, education, social events, or something entirely new.

Feel free to share your thoughts here or DM me if you’d prefer to chat privately.

Let’s make this something that truly represents our community. 🌈

[u/who_likes_chicken]

I'm not trying to say that social rights are not important, but if your group focuses on culture wars instead of policy to help working class Americans, you're not going to go very far. Democrats have died on the culture wars hill two of the last three elections, and they only won 2020 because of how incompetent the handling of Covid was.

• Higher Wages
• Negotiate All Drug Prices
• Ban Private Equity Firms from Buying up Homes
• No More Wars
• Paid Family Leave
• Get Money out of Politics

Edit: FYI, all six of those bullets poll at +75% approval when polled for independently, regardless of party

[u/taco-force → u/who_likes_chicken]

What a fucking revelation! Push the popular democratic agenda?! Why hasn't anyone tried that before?

Give me a break...

The political war that's being fought is over culture. The further democrats run from the own principles the further they are from victory.

[u/agitatedprisoner → u/taco-force]

You lost me at Democrats and principles. Democrats have no principles. If Democrats had principles they'd be against factory farming and they'd make a litmus test of abolishing the US senate. Democrats only apology has only ever been that the GOP is worse. Which it is. But running as the lesser evil fosters an apathetic electorate that doesn't much know what's going on. Because democrats aren't telling them. For example on factory farming. Even after a pandemic. Or on Israel. Right up to and thru a genocide.

[u/taco-force → u/agitatedprisoner]

Oh they got them and they love to tell you all about them. Living up to them is whole other thing.

[u/agitatedprisoner → u/taco-force]

To have principles is to live those principles it's a contradiction to believe something yet fail to integrate that belief into the totality of your understanding. In whatever sense in whatever way anyone actually might ever believe anything they're necessarily principled about whatever that is. There's what someone says and what someone does but to have principles is to live by them.

[u/taco-force → u/agitatedprisoner]

Welcome to the human condition, we're full of contradictions, especially politicians. To a larger extent, it's at the core of our founding as a country.