2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Progressive Pragmatism versus Liberal Elitism [View all]MaggieD
(7,393 posts)It may be, but in my experience as an LGBT activist I can tell you that the liberal elites really, really prevented any progress. While most of us were trying to get anti-discrimination and domestic partnership laws passed as an incremental move toward marriage years ago they were literally SCREAMING at our Dem allies in the state house and thus closing the door to anything because they wanted MARRIAGE and they wanted it now.
I often wondered how many LGBT people lots their jobs or were denied housing because the liberal elites couldn't settle for incremental progress and therefore got NONE. In fact it was not until we totally pushed them out of the way that we got the change we sought. It was sad, but we simply had to marginalize them in order to make any progress. And within 5 years all the dominos fell in our state.