Reply #2: Can't risk the record.

[Sapphocrat]

I have to stay squeaky-clean if I ever expect to emigrate -- anywhere. Which is the reason I don't attend protests or rallies anymore. (Wish I could, but that's how they're holding me hostage.)

I think a "bolt" from the party is more likely to succeed, but then we'd only be taking the Dem party hostage, and they'd end up scapegoating us even more than they already do for losing the election of the moment.

And even if we could convince every last voting queer to withhold his/her vote, that's only an estimated 4 million people, max (if you include Uncle Tom's Cabin Republicans).

Add our familes, friends, and other allies, and you're talking big numbers.

But could we do it? Ehhhhhhhhhhhh... No.

My dad (R.I.P., Pop, 15 years today) always said, "Don't tell me something won't work unless you have a better solution." But I don't have another solution.

If I had, I would have sung right out around 1979. :)