My personal neolib figure I give a vote to is Pritzker, who has signed legislation that made my changing my identification markers a 5 minute visit to the DMV, removed medical sign off for gender change on birth certificate, signed trans protections in healthcare, mandate transgender history to our state school curriculum, and hasn't thrown us under the bus (publicly) yet, like Newsom (actually called Newsom and other Democrats out for doing so). That's who I will be voting for in the primaries if they run.

Yes he's a billionaire. one of the enemies. Yes he wants a two state solution. But he at least is critical about Israel despite being Jewish himself and having received AIPAC funding no doubt. No, I'm not happy about these things, but on paper he's not stupid enough to play centrist, like Newsom. Yea, swinging even more conservative will completely forfeit the election to the party he has called out for being the Nazis (he denies this now, but he has done it multiple times). So maybe it's all talk.

i'm actually trans, you telling me my vote doesn't matter regarding today's issues is like telling the people King spoke to that they shouldn't fight for the vote because they are just seeking to participate in the rich white man's game. Few protected rights I have in my state are because the evil neoliberal signed them into legislature. I can go get SRS if I wanted it and it is required for my Medicaid to cover it. How is this throwing trans people under the bus?

I know fighting on this frontier may seem foolish to you. I know Pritzker is a billionaire politician giving a ton of lip service.

I even consider the very possible reality that he may be saying these things because Dems have already locked in Newsom as the golden boy, and it doesn't matter what Pritzker says because he's just gonna run in the primaries to give the DNC the illusion of choice before he concedes to Newsom at the last minute, so it doesn't matter what he says. (This is what I believe is likely happening).

But, while I try and help my community locally where I can, (I'm disabled there's not much but I try), I can afford to toss a stone in the direction that tells me it might bring some positivity, even if meaningful change doesn't happen, because letting JD Vance win is so so so much worse.

Yeah this sucks, but it's what reasonable people are forced to do in this fucked up society.