To wit, I think people have allowed critical issues to be bundled with non-critical issues, creating political blocs and choosing, over and over again, to give up on reaching out and coalition with people who might not share non-critical issues under the assumption that they also oppose your critical issues.

Politics isn't a game of good versus bad, where one side is Righteous and Good and the other one is Evil and Monstrous, and the insistence they must be is what's costing you seats in power and the ability to reverse course in the worst of it. This isn't to say there isn't a very real contingent doing Evil, Monstrous shit. We're in a resurgence of Fascism, regretfully.

But you genuinely need to be able to coalition with people you dislike, who do not share 100% of your Pure and Perfect Politics, if you're looking to get anything done.

You also need to learn how to repackage your critical issues for a disinterested/ambiguous/unengaged audience. Clamoring for Trans Rights is not going to get you anywhere with an uneducated, unreceptive audience. But you know what will? Bodily autonomy. And to be clear, I'm not saying you have to give up or compromise on Trans Rights. What I'm saying is Trans Rights are often a matter of bodily autonomy, and an audience that's completely outside the queer community and utterly uneducated about it, will have an easier time supporting bodily autonomy than Trans rights, even if at the core you're asking them to vote the same. One of those requires education and work on the part of the voter, to understand where you're coming and what the ask is. The other one is immediately relevant to them: they have a body and they would like to retain autonomy over it.

A vote for bodily autonomy and a vote for Trans right are mathematically the same, when you're tallying them.

Would it be nice that you could spend time and money and effort educating people on stuff like Trans rights so that they understand they're a no-brainer and they shouldn't even be a debate? Sure! But that's a different approach from coalition building. That's a parallel effort.

Stop sabotaging yourself trying to do everything at once.

Look, if there's a bill you don't like and you need people to vote against it, repeating over and over why you personally don't like it won't get you outside your own circle. That's not good enough. Be louder! Be smarter! Point out others might not like the bill. People you don't like, even. You cannot overstate the power of rephrasing how a bill that will be deadly for some will be a mild inconvenience to others. People don't like being inconvenienced! They don't like being inconvenienced a lot more strongly and consistently than they like doing things to save others. This isn't a moral judgment, it's just statistical analysis.

Navel gazing brought to you by local election turnaround and my neighborhood whatsapp group melting down because the bloc failed and now recycling is mandatory*.

*Not the actual issue but you fuckers do not get an insight into my actual real life politics, are you kidding me?