Reply #24: Some "liberals" pull the lever for team Democratic Party.

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And that's all the party asks for. I guess the rest of it was just slogans.

I don't know where the "crazed homophobe must be gay" trope comes from either. Some people say it's from some scientific study. Frankly I don't trust a lot of those studies. Hell, it wasn't quite so long ago that it was "science" to give electroshock therapy to LGBT people to "cure" them (at least in the mainstream). Fortunately we've moved away from that kind of barbarity. But we are still a country that is cruel to minorities. The indifference to dignity in the system that our government has become creates a shield for bigotry of all kinds. Just because the names on the office doors have changed doesn't mean that everything is happy funtime for anyone but the people who usually benefit from that kind of sea-change.

I've had a hard time articulating to people that being anti-Republican is not quite the same thing as being progressive. There's a lot of overlap obviously, but there is also a difference. I don't know if that's a conversation that DU can have, since it is mostly set up to be anti-Republican, which is fine, but that creates a very different kind of user base, as we've seen.