Reply #38: This is true. And I can't say that....................

[socialist_n_TN]

I'm unhappy about ANY of the positive things that have come about. I've been fighting the pot legalization battle for 40+ years and the gay rights battle ever since it came into my consiousness probably 30+ years ago. I just think that this kind of tradeoff is, at BEST, a net loss. We trade economic security and accelerate the wealth disparity that's KILLING the bottom 98% for things that should be no brainers and probably would have happened anyway. Public acceptance of gay rights and marijuana reform would have brought these things about eventually anyway.

Also true that there's nothing else to do but keep applying pressure. Unfortunately, fighting the capitalists who are killing us at a more and more rapid pace will take more than applying pressure like we did on the gay rights front. We don't HAVE 40+ years before the our enviroment is unlivable because of capitalist depradations.