Ok... I'm Doubling Down... No Poll... Can We Just Admit That Bi-Partisanship Is Dead And Gone ???

[Bluenorthwest]

44. They are self damaging.

No one is going to join you just to be bullied. LGBT people will simply not join some movement that says 'civil rights don't matter, both Parties are the same, only money counts'. That's not progressive, no matter how man straight white men stomp their feet and insist that it is.
As a person raised in the Franklin and Eleanor tradition and watching the 60's movement, when I came of age and found that the progressives, the American left, simply did not come to the AIDS battle grounds to join the fight I was very disappointed. There were no elder leaders from the movement, none of the famous organizers came to help out, none of the big organizations rallied for the cause, no. LGBT had to build it all, do it all. Nearly 30,000 Americans died while the President said nothing, and the 'left' did not rise up. Gay people occupied Wall St, got arrested demonstrating at Phram companies and Insurance companies. Where were the rest of you?

It stuns me that people who did not bother to help us when we needed them assume they can preach at us when it looks like they might need us.