When I consider the possibility that the difference is that powerful economic interests don't lose anything from gay equality, I think: but why does there seem to be progress on immigration? Well, the party the powerful like best, the GOP, allegedly can't win the White House without Hispanic votes. But, then, why are abortion rights under attack in just about every state where Republicans are in charge? Why do Republicans still think a hard-line stance on abortion has no political downside? And why don't they seem to feel that way anymore about gay rights? How did gay rights get decoupled from abortion as part of the traditional-values wedge-issue package that always kept Middle American whites voting for the party most unabashed in its defense of the plutocracy?
Three reasons.
- Because unlike African-Americans, LGBTQ folks don't vote 95%+ for the Democrats.
- More than a few of them are white.
- We didn't just re-elect an LGBT president.
Not sure I can agree with your Pundit work there, Norm.
ReplyDelete"Progress" on immigration reform is in the direction of creating a permanent underclass of workers with no legal rights, one step above chattel slavery.
Anti-abortion laws and policies help to ensure a steady supply of unwanted children born to women not in a position to raise them to be participating members of society, which helps in creating a permanent underclass of workers with no legal rights, one step above chattel slavery.
The conservative nirvana is the perfection of the peculiar institution of the 1850's South, wherein a few whites could be gentlemen, while living off the labor of a permanent underclass of workers with no legal rights based on chattel slavery.
Homo-bashing doesn't really contribute to a permanent underclass of workers with no legal rights, etc.
You're right. Going after same-sex marriage doesn't create a permanent underclass. Going after voting rights, women's rights, and the rights of the poor absolutely does.
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