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What am I supposed to tell my brother - that he’s wrong? That I don’t agree with him? He’s right.
I’m willing to give the next Congress one more session before I change my party registration, but just one. If I don’t see the Democrats start to stand up for basic human rights and equality, that’s it.
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Yep.
tell your brother that it’s not so hard. I tore up my Democratic Party card and reregistered as unaffiliated right after Obama was “coronated.” it was a very liberating moment.
This section from the original post being discussed caught my attention:
“… yielded the largest ever contingent of LGBT delegates and participants to the Democratic Convention and laid a possible foundation for future inclusion.
But none of that translated to viewers of the Democratic Convention — which I wrote about in “Requiem for Gay Political Power.” From my seat glued to the TV, it looked like a shameful replay of 2004 when the LGBT community agreed to invisibility for the “greater good” of electing John Kerry.”
So even though this convention went further to create real GLT participation than ever before, it is just horrible because TV viewers were somehow supposed to know whenever a gay person appeared on camera? Does this writer suppose they are all Drag Queens or wear signs saying “look at me I’m gay”? How could She know whether gay delegates were shown or not? Does she claim to personally know each and every one of them - from all the states?
I don’t get it.
There are many pro gay rights Democrats who believe that the state by state gains are the best way to move the entire country forward the fastest. Deciding to oppose that because you support a different approach to achieve the same ultimate goal makes sense. Aiding and abetting Republicans putting the breaks on all progress doesn’t.
the problem is that if you switch your registration, you lose your vote in the primary and thus your ability to push the party in the right direction.
i was an independent from 1995 until 2006 on principle because there were plenty of things that the democrats regularly did to piss me off. between 1995 and 1999, i lived in IL where they had open primaries and so i could still vote for progressive dems. but then i moved to PA, which has a closed primary. i held out for a few years on principle, but in 2006 i couldn’t handle casey being annointed as the dem senate candidate with more progressive alternatives in the primary. i registered as dem to vote in that primary. not that my mighty vote carried the race, but at least i had a voice, albeit small.
for that reason i’d hate to have your voice in the primary lost. the democrats suck, but if you stay in the party we can try to make them suck less. usually, it won’t work, but eventually it might. that small possibility is enough for me because the alternative isn’t any better.