The Democrats Will Not Help Us

Pam's House Blend is reporting what many of us have begun to realize - that the administration and congress are not going to do anything for LGBT's. See Pam's post here.

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The blogs are closer to the truth than the party wants us to know. They used the blogs to their advantage during the election, and now they're trying to figure out how to control what's become a nuisance for them.

Based on everything I have been reading and seeing, not just the White House but also Congress is afraid to do anything to help us.

I think the only way we're going to get anything from this administration and congress is if we have some kind of uprising. We are dealing with people who are hostile to us in a different way than the republicans. While the republicans declared all-out war on us, the democrats are just afraid to help us.

I don't think we can expect anything from them unless we take some kind of action to show that we will no longer sit on the sidelines and wait, wait, wait. We are not ONE step closer today than we were 40 years ago in terms of federal recognition or protection.

Obama is an utter disappointment - he made it sound like he would be decisive and would do the right thing - it was bullshit. If he wants to wait until every single person likes us to give us the rights we deserve, we'll all be gone from this world before that happens.

But he alone is not the problem - we have an equally fearful and leaderless congress. They just don't care, and I don't think anything we can do will change that. Our only recourse is the courts, and thats scary given that the supreme court is polluted with right-wing zealots.

We are going to have to accept that we were lied to by this president and by the democratic party - they will not help us unless forced to. They are no different than the republicans as far as gay people are concerned.