So imagine conservatives are out there telling each other:
First they gave women rights, and I did nothing.
Then they gave black people rights, and I did nothing.
Then Obama gave consenting adults the right to get married, and I did nothing.
Then Hillary gave trans people rights, and I did nothing.
Then QAnon told me I needed to act—and there was no one left to bully.
After trans people, who's next on the basic human right's agenda?
Disabled people. The treatment of disabled people in the US is nightmarish. Brutally enforced poverty, medical neglect, mobility is impossible, housing is extremely difficult, social isolation is a huge problem. It goes on and on.
2023 convo...
Mrs. Chud: "Disabled people don't matter. Maybe it would be better if they were all dead."
Mr. Liberal: "What a terrible thing to say! Disabled people deserve the same rights as anybody else!"
Leftist: "Mr. Liberal, what's your plan? What should the dems plan be to stop the GOP fascists."
Mr. Liberal - very earnestly: "Vote."
2024 - It's after the elections where the GOP won everything and we're going to get GOP President Ghoul.
President-elect Ghoul: "Disabled people don't matter. It's better if they were all dead."
Leftist: "Who could have seen this coming."
Mr. Liberal - very earnestly: "People didn't vote hard enough! Damn you Susan Sarandon!"
Equally possible that the Liberal will be scared into line by the prospect of a 0.5% tax hike to pay for humane benefits and rights for disabled people.
He might feel guilty about it though. However, he's been thinking about inflation and he's been looking at his 401k and a 0.5% tax hike could be surprisingly detrimental.
It must be because those Bernard brethren did not vooooot for an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself.