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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders tells Ed Schultz: Southern Democrats are tired of being abandoned by the party [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)He said they are 'hung up on' some issues, he did not say 'they have concerns about their deep family values being challenged by homosexuals'. He said they are hung up. What we need to do is unhang them. Give them another focus and an experience based education. The actual bigots will remain Republicans. Those who are just fixated on memes they were fed might evolve.
5 years ago Obama went to SC with a busload of anti gay and ex gay preachers and he defended that shit by claiming that SC was so deeply religious that we could not ask them to stop being bigots, he told us we had to get used to their hate and welcome them or we could fuck off. A DU Obama supporter told me this 'we don't need the gays anymore, Obama is bringing in the faith community to fill that gap, so your poutrage is of no concern'. This was OUR Party. Just a few short years ago. Obama was not alone, John Edwards, while having an affair, preached about being Southern and religious and so traditional about the Sanctity of marriage that he simply could not 'cross that bridge' and support equality 'I'm the son of a Deacon, one man, one woman, it is just a part of me I can not change'. Hillary was 'civil unions only'. Biden nearly broke his dental plate shouting out his agreement with Sarah Palin that marriage was only for 'one man, one woman' in their TV debate.
There is hardly a Democrat in office that I have not heard fully insult my family and shout about how God says they are superior to us. Paul Wellstone, who is seen on DU as a saint, gleefully voted for DOMA to make sure my civil rights would always be denied. This was his objective, and people here refuse to criticize that shit.
So yeah, people get hung up and they need to be unstuck by smarter people.