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In reply to the discussion: Cutting Medicare by $700 Million to fund failed Trade Adjustment Assistance and fuck us [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)You want to know who we are? We are the people who persuaded Obama to come out in support of marriage equality prior to the 2012 election, while straight folks kept shouting that to do so would lose us the election. How do we get such results? Everybody knows we always vote and some of us have fat checkbooks.
I challenge you to take a look at turnout in various places, it was not low in heavily LGBT areas and States, 2010 both CA and Oregon went ultra blue, had big Democratic victories, NY did just fine, as did the big cities in general. The non voters were of course whining straight white moderates.
LGBT people most certainly did not campaign against Obama, and would never blame other Democrats for what he was doing. That would be insane, and insanity is for straights.
Trust me, we knew exactly what we were doing, and the proof lies in the results.