A whole lot of gay people are Democrats through and through. They back Democratic candidates, and to a very large degree, they swoon when you mention the Stonewall Democrats group, because it's all about GLBTQ rights. A lot of these folks also can't understand why I asked to be taken off the Stonewall mailing list, why I refuse to join, and why--even though I am very tempted with the Clinton/Obama race this year--I will absolutely never register with the Democratic party. Or any political party, for that matter.
Well, let me explain it to you.
I think hard-line party stances are killing this country. I think every time you blindly support someone based purely on party affiliation, you are pounding a nail into the coffin of rational thought and intelligent decision-making in this country. And every group, no matter what its good intentions, that blindly endorses candidates based on party affiliation is guilty of dangerous and irresponsible behavior.
Case in point, the mayoral elections this past year in Pittsburgh. I was aghast to see that Pittsburgh's Steel City Stonewall Democrats endorsed the Democratic incumbent Luke Ravenstahl. For one thing, he has openly said he opposes gay marriage. He also said he opposed civil unions, and when pressed on that later his defense was that he didn't know what civil unions were. OK, well, I also hate single-issue voting, so how is he as a candidate otherwise? Let's see...in the time he has been in office, he has proven to be inexperienced, immature, callous, at best ethically questionable, and at worst downright corrupt.
But he was endorsed. Because he was the Democrat. Fan-fucking-tastic.
You want to know why no matter who is in office, nobody shakes up "the system"? It's because people continue to blindly elect whomever their party puts on the ballot. We keep electing people who rose through the ranks of the system to get where they are, and then we are surprised when they don't change it.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result.
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I have to wait to see who that loser McCain picks as his running mate, but I'm seriously looking for a third party candidate unless someone awesome joins up with that faker!
ReplyDeleteI hate that my brethren think it's ok just to come together even if we have someone we don't like running.
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