Well said! I just came from the Prism & Pen editors workgroup where a transgender editor had dropped a video of vice President Harris bobbing and weaving around a question of trans equality. Even the reporter called her out for her lack of clarity. But she would not take a firm proactive moral position in favor of transgender equality. Instead, she insisted that it's important to follow the law.

Fuck her.

I'm voting for her, and then I'm ready to start fighting her tooth and nail if she wins. Because she's barely less conservative than Republicans. And I'm sick to death of having to vote for evl conservative politicians like her.

This is what I wrote in the P&P workgroup:

"Hardly shocking, sadly, though it is disgusting to watch her bob and weave instead of exercise a powerful voice of goodness and conscience. I'm voting for her because I feel I have no choice. Because I feel that a Trump victory could very easily lead to eventual queer pogroms, and I'm typing that with so sense of hyperbole.

"I have long recognized Harris as evil and depraved. She's a politician who has demonstrated that she willing to fuck marginalized people by enthusiastically imprisoning (and bragging about it to score political points!) people in the war on drugs.

"She easily and freely resorts to xenophobic language to demonize refugees. She won't condemn the genocide in Gaza.

"I detest her and anyone like her! I think she's cruel and evil, and I think she doesn't actually have a personal conscience. I think we need to be ready to fight her tooth and nail if and when she takes office. But I'm voting for her anyway, because a Trump administration would be even worse for queer people and other marginalized people than a Harris administration.

"But I take no pleasure voting for her. Voting for her makes the gorge rise up in my throat."

As you put it so incredibly well, our problem is not division. Our problem is that we have no choice but to vote for disgusting monsters.