2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: There is no such thing as a Third Way Progressive. [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)not sincerely feel threatened by your actual enemies. Look, there are some anti Clinton posters here who come to me as a Bernie supporter and rage at me because they want me to hate on Hillary, straight white men who were not fighting for equality with us who now say 'look at this date on which Hillary endorsed marriage equality, hate her for being late'. They do not understand why Hillary gets some leeway, that she has been so much on our side that she has endured abuse as our proxy. Bernie is my preference, but Hillary is just my second choice, not some anti gay villain.
We can't afford to take good allies and parse them into enmity. We have objectives still to reach. It would not be truthful nor useful to dress Hillary up as some opponent to equality in order to advance Sanders. The posters on DU who have tried to engender that sort of animosity do so for their own agendas, not for Bernie, not for Hillary, and most certainly not for the good of the people.
LGBT people have actual opponents, people passing laws against us and fighting those laws which give us equal standing. We don't have the luxury of looking for faults to find, of manufacturing reasons for complaint. We have enemies sworn to destroy us.
I figure those who feel they can describe allies as enemies for the sake of petty partisan politics have no idea what it is like to have actual enemies. I watched the Reagan Republicans laugh as tens of thousands of my community died so I will not be claiming Hillary or Bernie are my enemies. Because they are not and because there really are enemies to contend with.