I have been enormously grateful to many in the Dkos community as you have struggled and grown on the issue of homophobia the last few days.
And then last night Pat Robertson crows that he is "Remarkably Pleased" with Obama.
Doesnt' this make even hard core progressive Obama fans (of which I was one) squirm with nervousness?
(Anti-Warren diary trolls: this is not a Warren Diary - it is a Pat Robertson Diary).
And a diary about labor expert Mary Beth Maxwell (a lesbian from my hometown and my grandmother's home parish) being dumped in favor of a Hispanic congresswoman not particularly involved in labor issues. (They say the Hispanics were mad at only getting Commerce - so much for "no tokenism").
This is a diary about the fact that the greatest GLBT presence at the inauguration is a band that has "graciously" been "allowed" to participate in the parade.
This is most important a diary about "who will be sacrificed next"?
It is a homophobia diary as many of the most hard core political activist gays prepare to head for the closets.
My latest position was that Warren wasn't about Obama's ignorance, or homophobia, or illusions about chaninging Warren.
It was a cold, cynical plot cooked up together with Axelrod to delight the right by making us squeal. And we fulfilled the part brilliantly. How could we not have? And now the core of the cultural Right, the snakey, smiley Robertson, is reciprocating by speaking of his near- dumbfounded joy that we have finally been put in our place.
Link here.
First 1.35 of bush-bashing, then Obama jubilation after 1.35
They may have overplayed their right-love hand. What think ye progressives? Who is stumbling into whose trap?
Resistance does now seem futile, and for a good number of us, dangerous.
For me as a democratic party official, it would definitely be dangerous to cry against the new party line in our splendid new coalition with the religious right.
Allies, we need your advice, help, and guidance. We are losing our ability to hope at this point. Not lost completely yet, but it is only the tiniest of flames. It not only does not feed action, it barely keeps itself alive in that stuffy closet. Even I am a tiny bit into "are we really that disgusting" swallow-the-hate land. I can only imagine what others must be going through.
You may need to think out this strategy for yourselves. If this crowd can do this to us, just think what delightful compromises they will have for unions and national health care, not to speak of where all those trillions in reconstruction money will be going. This won't be just earmarks. They'll have the port diced and sliced by electoral computer model down to the state legislature district or county level for precise political impact to produce the perfectly malleable "moderate" result.
BTW: Trolls, from the FAQ
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Recipe trolls, recipes are to be used for troll diaries, not for one's you just do not like. These are serious issues, and there has been a new breaking development. Please just go to another diary and leave us in peace to hash this out in peace and don't inflame our wounded spirits further.
Of course unless you want to inflame and disrupt us, but expect to be hidden with attendant mojo loss.
To all other LGBTQQIAA (;) - that includes you to allies ;) brethren and sisters let us console our selves and gently, quietly explore the best path.