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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8503378" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah, that's nice for the US, but we've seen the opposite in the UK, by the same mechanisms, because different voices were privileged by those mechanisms. Transgender people have slightly more rights than they did a decade ago, but about 1/10th as many as was intended even 5 years ago, because social media popularized an extreme anti-transgender viewpoint and promoted it to the right people, who happen, unfortunately, to be the right age to be a significant part of the "in power" demographic (i.e. 45-65, well-educated, wealthier). They're still a minority, but that's enough. (This isn't even a left/right issue here, note - it's basically an below-45 vs. 45-65 one with the 65+ people being all over the place on it).So if you think it always turns out right? Nah. At least not in the short or medium term. Things can improve, but they can also get worse, by the same mechanisms, and the public mostly thinking one thing doesn't mean, due to the complex mechanisms involved, necessarily translate to that thing being made to be the case.(We can see the latter very clearly in the UK today - the vast, overwhelming majority of the public supports legally mandatory masks, supports lockdowns (despite hating them), supports restrictions in general, even now - but the ruling party, because of the lag between public feeling and actual voting, does not reflect that opinion.)</blockquote>

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