Peppermint

But if I told you that person's name is Caitlyn Jenner, there's a lot of people like, actually, no, actually, no.

Well, guess what?

If it happens for the trans community, it can happen for black folks, women, disabled people, whoever, you name it.

And so identity is really important when it comes to being able to understand and hold sort of empathy for people.

But identity alone cannot be a reason to follow somebody off of a cliff.

And so what we really need to do, I think, as people who are progressive, is understand the difference between being on the left, being a leftist, and being a Democrat, being a progressive, being a liberal, and being a centrist.

And we have to understand, and I know a lot of people don't, that just because it says the name Democrat doesn't mean it's on the left or progressive at all.

American politics is very center-right focused.

And that's just the way it is.

Because if the people who were the, quote, opposition were really the opposition, they would have as much fire to get things done as what we're seeing the Republicans doing, who are getting things done.

Yeah.

Meanwhile, the people that are in the center who are sort of like the thought leaders or whoever are sitting there attacking people on the left and convincing everyone, just stick with the status quo, don't rock the boat, and using identity as a shield.

Right.

for criticisms, for very real criticisms that need to happen.

I don't care who you are.

I understand now because of Citizens United and the Heritage Foundation that these organizations work in tandem to flood money into politics and then completely do things like reverse access to our constitutional rights.

So if they decide that they're gonna put a black person in front to usher that in, I don't care what you look like.

I don't want you in.

If you're taking money, I don't want you in.

If you can't say no to war, if you're not anti-war, anti-genocide, I don't want you in.