It would be nice if the far left, for once, did some introspection.

[DanTex]

155. Yup, on and off. Almost my entire adult life.

In fact, it was the 2000 election that woke my young naive self up to politics and in particular to the stupidity of the Green Party and the far left.

I don't remember the marriage equality arguments here on DU, probably was during a period that I didn't post much. But I do remember the arguments in the country as a whole, and you are right. The activists played that one correctly. Instead of trying to sabotage the Democratic Party for not unanimously supporting it, they kept making a moral and logical issue-based argument which they eventually won.

Maybe the far left should take a note from the LGBT rights activists, and try to use persuasion rather than sabotage as their central strategy. If they had done that in 2000 and 2016, we might never have had W or Trump. Because, while I do remember LGBT rights activists passionately making their case during the early 2000s, I don't remember them arguing that there is no difference between the Dems and the GOP as a whole (or even, like Nader, Stein, and various other far lefties have, that it is actually better for the country to have Republicans win).

The other irony, of course, is that the far left generally considers social issues like gay marriage to be unimportant. They consider them wedges that the "oligarchy" uses to keep the electorate divided, preventing the glorious socialist revolution from coming. Good luck explaining to far lefties the importance of electing Dems in order to preserve the social gains we have made, and avoid supreme court justices that would roll back the clock on things like gay rights and abortion.