Gays for McCain? It is like Jews for Hitler

[thoreau]

I hear rumblings on LJ - and also at the gym this morning - about gay men who (if Hillary is not on the ticket for the Democratic Party) will give their vote to McCain. I cannot understand voting for a war mongering, sexist, abortion foe with a sense of the world that continues the road of alienation and bully tactics that is bush and reagan's foreign policy. He's also not friendly even REMOTELY to gay rights - (granted mainstream politics in this country isn't all that friendly anyhow but...) even if he did show up on Ellen's show.

I can't see how a vote for McCain - who is a ruthless conservative of the WORST kind - is a protest against Obama not choosing Hillary.

Not voting? perhaps. and I'd wholeheartedly support that gesture actually.

But voting for McCain and actively campaigning for him? Thats simply aiding the enemy politically of everything progressive. I don't understand that.

and lets not be naive here - McCain and his party are the enemy of all things progressive in this country. Supporting the GOP when their platform devalues women, doesn't recognize gay people as equal citizens, fights to make reproductive rights illegal, and continues to fight and support wars on the backs of our young men and women in the service, and to give the GOP license to continue bullying it's way around the world and destroying whats left of the confidence in America as a superpower abroad?

Gay people voting for McCain in the next election is the equivalent of a Jew voting for Hitler... Look at what the GOP has done to this country in the last eight years of Bush. It's disgraceful. McCain will change a few things - but he's a conservative religious dinosaur. Voting for him is simply voting your own rights and value as a gay person away.

Comments

[holy13nation.livejournal.com]

Lat night a friend whose partner resides in San Francisco said his other half was doing exactly that...and a number of his friends. I was startled. They seemed to think Obama had some hidden black agenda when I thought it more likely that the amount he would have had to compromise to get this far would make him little more than a paper tiger.
Besides, everyone always goes on about how it's the men behind the scenes that pull the strings etc. Why would that be any different with Obama ?

[audrabaudra.livejournal.com]

So what if Obama does have a "hidden black agenda?" I'm sure he does, and it's about time that someone with an actual idea about social equity in this country -- coming from a Black viewpoint, gay viewpoint, ANY kind of minority viewpoint -- has a say-so in the echelons of power.

Don't Bush and McCain and their cronies have an overt White heterosexist, war-mongering, America First and Fuck Everybody Else agenda...but that's going to be okay with the electorate because "the devil we know....?"

The people with whom you were speaking were projecting their own deep racism onto Obama by accusing him of having a hidden race-based agenda. They have their own race-based issues to work on -- and theirs are less hidden than they might like to think.