Here we go again!

Here we go again!

 

 

Here we go again!: By David

 

            So that it’s out of the way. I supported Barrack Obama. I nagged all my friends and family to vote for him. I harassed strangers on the street to go vote and to vote for Barrack. I spit out a lung for the good senator from Illinois right up until 8 pm est. on 11-04-08. And when the results came in that night I was happy. But with that caveat comes another. Never did I say that he’d be better on G.L.B.T rights than McCain. There are a lot of reasons why Barrack is better than John but never did I say anything about gay rights. Not because I thought that if I said anything about gay rights that it would scare people from voting for him. Far from it! It’s that when it comes to gay rights I don’t think that democrats really care that much. We all (sans the log cabin republicans) why we don’t vote republican. “They hate us. They’re on the side of the religious right.” Bla bla bla … But when it come to mine and my communities civil rites I could never find it within myself to completely trust the Democratic party.

 

            I’m not a conspiratorial person. Unlike the people who don’t believe that we went to the moon or that 9/11 was done by the govt, I actually have evidence to validate my belief. Sure the few and far between steps forward on local and state levels and some federal stuff we can more than thank democrats for. But the big stuff? Bill Clinton in his 1’st campaign for the white house in 92 said that he’d get us equality in the military. Again more caveats. Bill Clinton rushed it. People weren’t ready for that and he didn’t go thru the right channels. So he gets a pass on that. So he have to forgive him for don’t ask don’t tell. A compromise that we should be happy for. Can I share my definition of a compromise? A compromise is where everybody is unhappy because nobody gets what they want. We don’t get equality because if our partners drop us off at the base and give us a kiss we get thrown out (except in war when you’re a ground pounder and warm bodies are needed). Heterosexuals on the other hand get benefits and a pat on the back. And the right doesn’t get what they want which is to see us all, lined up and shot. So Bubba gets a pass on that one. Then someone needs to explain to me D.O.M.A enacted in 1996. The bill was passed by Congress by a vote of 85-14 in the Senate^[1] and a vote of 342-67 in the House of Representatives^[2], and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 21, 1996. An election year! So 4 years after he promised to get us some federal equality he basically told us to fuck off. He ran ad’s bragging about it.

“The big D Democrates” haven’t really brought us anywhere on a federal leval. We don’t have a place in housing and job discrimination laws on a federal level. We don’t have immigration parrody. No marriage and no millitary. We came close to having an employee non-discrimication act but the T part of the G.L.B.T community would’ve had to be thrown under the bus. Which is why I’m not a fan of the H.R.C. We vote against the republican party because they openly hate us. Or atleast they apear to. Every election year they tell their “people” to vote for them or their sons will want to decorate and daughters will think that the Home Depot is a great place to hang-out. But the Republicans never really do anything or at the very least succed in doing anything because if they do succed then the hetero-supremacist won’t give them money anymore for their campaigns. But I can’t but shake the feeling that we’re being used to. That we’re being told what we want to hear and then we’re put on the back burner until the next election cycle when we’re told that they did as much as they can and that if we want more then we need to cough up more cash and vote.

 

            But for all the bragging Bubba did about D.O.M.A and don’t ask don’t tell. I don’t remember him matching it with effort after Mathew Shepard was murdered for a hate crimes bill. We still don’t have one on a federal level to this day. But we have a new president and a new congress and as of this day (11/29/08) we pretty much have a majority of the senate. What can possibly go wrong? That’s when I read in the news last Sunday that 44 isn’t going to do anything about the don’t ask don’t tell policy until 2010 (another election year. How funny is that). No word on on civil unions. As for marriage in New York Satate, none of the powers that be are going to do anything about it any time soon. Then a liberal radio talk show host said something durring the 1’st days of the prop 8 protest. That Barrack most likely won’t do anything to advance gay rights in his 1’st term as so that he can get elected in 2012. As Guy Renard and I pointed out in Declaration of Culture War, this is a slippery slope. If he does nothing for us in his 1’st term so that he can safly get a 2’nd term then it’s not a stretch to say that he won’t do anything in his second term or he’ll hurt the democrat running to succed him. I’m writing this because I just saw the Harvey Milk movie. It was great but I couldn’t help but notice that he didn’t like liberals and he was a republican prior to running for office the 1’st time. I can’t help but feel there’s something I don’t know here. Then again Martin Luther King was also a republican. If he was around today he’d trade in his G.O.P membership faster than I can blink my eye’s. Since watching Milk I’ve felt my suspicions were vincated. While I don’t know what he had against liberals. Maybe it was the times or maybe liberal weren’t pro-gay once upon a time. They are now! Or atleast the one’s I hear on the radio are,  to some degree.

 

            So here’s my dark cloud conspiracy theory. Not to punish 44 before he can commit a crime, but I feel that all the big talk about change isn’t going to apply to us. I can feel a hand on my back and it’s going to throw me under the bus. It’ll probably come late next year. Barrack won’t get his hands dirty. It’ll come from the congress. Perfectly timed for 2010. It’ll be called bipartisan or some wishy/washy political jargan and it’ll be associated with the word family. We’ll be thrown a small political bone. And we’ll be told it was a political move and that it’ll be undone after the election cycle. That we need to calm down. Empty our wallet directly into a democratic campaign and vote the canidate with a D before their name on the ballot. Or the republicans will get in and start shoving us in ovens. It won’t even occur to us that we’re essentially voting for the guy who stabbed us in the back in the hopes that he’ll make the effort to pull the knife out. From this day forward we should let Barrack Obama know that he wouldn’t be the 44’th president if we didn’t canvass for him, vote for him, donate money to him, drag our friends and family to the booths. That he has to make good on his promises to us because everyday that passes by the libertarian party looks better and better. Or maybe the green party. Independent party looks promising. We just have to get rid of Joe Lieberman. But if our community is known for anything, it’s moving into a neighborhood and fixing it up. We worked just as hard as everyone else. We put our heart and soul into getting him in the White House. Some of us have lost friends for him. We must let him know on a daily basis that it he meant change. That if he’s really against wedge issue’s that cause partisanship. That he has to work for us and not the right. You can’t comprimise with illogical hate based on theology. Otherwise, come 2012! We must say No-bama.