Imho Chelsea running is a good thing. She won’t be able to affect the system, but her platform gives the left some much-needed exposure.
Like the Overton window exists, and a radical trans woman running for office is going to make a lot more waves and connect with a LOT more people than a 500 word Tumblr essay denouncing electoral politics.
Noooo stoppppp
Why are y’all obsessed with her running just bc she’s trans????
What are her credentials?
What are her skills?
We can’t go through this another term, even if it’s not for president.
Stop sensationalizing Chelsea Manning.
I’m excited for her running because she has radical politics, not because she’s trans (although that’s great as well). The problem with Trump isn’t that he’s under-qualified, it’s that he’s a racist, misogynistic, rich, neoliberal fuckwad who deregulates everything in sight and doesn’t care one bit for anyone but himself. Chelsea, on the other hand, was incarcerated and psychologically tortured for exposing US war crimes. She’s got morality, something severely lacking in the government.
We’ve got plenty of perfectly qualified, skilled career politicians who don’t bat an eyelash when dozens of civilians violently die by drone strike. Not to mention, plenty of politicians get elected whose only credentials are a business degree and a couple runs as auditor and yet they’re seen as perfectly qualified candidates.
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