A quota for non-binary party officials
A letter to the Glinner update from Matt Osborne:
Mr. Linehan,
The following comment from an Alabama Democratic Party insider was just passed along to me:
“How are we going to talk to voters with a straight face after setting a quota for non-binary party officials?”
I have been sounding the alarm all this time, and now the pigeons are coming home to roost. This midterm election year is going to be awful for Democrats. I was just discussing the poor polling on all this gobbledygook with my local-political friends and said “every time another man cheats women out of their sports, Democrats lose ten House seats.” One of them responded by conveying that comment, which is less than a day old.
It’s a desperately sad joke, isn’t it. We have climate change and a pandemic and the usual life or death matters to deal with, including the continuation of democracy itself, and we could lose everything because of this stupid frivolous narcissistic belief system that lets grown men pretend to be women and push real women off the cliff in the process. It’s Swift’s boiled eggs all over again.
H/t Sackbut
What’s sad is that people are also at the same time going to go with a movement that believes that Covid response is also a result of Mass Formation Psychosis.
I can’t shake the feeling that we are doomed and I don’t see the way out of it.
Add “Defund the police” and “kill Gifted programs” to the list… Why? Why do this? Tell the weirdos to fuck off…
I mentioned over in Miscellany Room 7 that the Alabama Democratic Party (ADP) has focused on representation for a long time. There is a history behind that, partly having to do with the conservative Dixiecrat contingent, but it feeds right into the current identitarian movement. There are a lot of rules in place that require quotas of various types within the ADP hierarchy. Adding a “non-binary” quota is definitely in keeping with the ADP rule set, rather than a new thing that has materialized solely due to “woke” influence. In recent years there was a bitter fight for party leadership, and it was almost entirely about representation (and the way reasonable Black representation was to be achieved).
The 2019 bylaws are here:
https://aldemocrats.org/sites/default/files/ADP_Bylaws_2019_10_05.pdf
One paragraph:
Yes, it’s by self-identification.
There is also a section about the six Diversity Caucuses (in addition to the Minority Caucus) and detailed affirmative action goals for the groups represented by the Diversity Caucuses. Lots and lots and lots about representation.
I don’t know to what degree this simply reflects the National Democratic Party. If the ADP is similar to the national party in this regard, the Democrats are doomed.
I haven’t seen anything about new proposed bylaws, but I suspect they haven’t been posted yet.