Fighting for Gay Rights Is Fighting for a Strong Middle Class

Gay Americans are fortunate to be able to express their view in public. It is not the case in some parts of this world.  However, gay Americans are, for the most part, wimps when it comes to standing up for their own interest. Yes I said wimps! Anyone who is too lazy, to comfortable, or too worried about their job to not stand up for their rights and those of their fellow LGBT friends, are wimping out. If you think to yourself,”I will let somebody else fight for this one”, you are copping out. No one else will do it. It is up to you. It is up to each and every one of us to fight the good fight for gay marriage and for the overthrow of DADT.

As President Obama said in his inaugural speech, he cannot do it alone. And what he explained to his close followers was that he meant they would have to be out there day in and day out fighting for those things they believed in. Change does not happen in America easily. The forefathers intentionally made it difficult . However, I am not sure they meant for it to be so difficult for minorities to overcome injustice. They actually were trying to protect the minority frm the tyranny of the majority. But the majority has learned how to game the system. They will continue to do so until it is taken away from them. It will never be taken away as long as gay Americans and other minorities continue to act and vote against their own self interest.

We have a two party system in this country. One cannot choose to vote for a party that preaches self control and financial responsibility and at the same time wants to put you in a closet, shut the door, and take your Social Security away from you. One cannot vote for a party the says we believe in the will of the people, even if that will would get you fired for being gay or keep you from marrying who you choose. Once cannot vote for an ideology of low taxes on the wealthy while taking away the safety net of social security for the elderly and robbing the middle class.

The real problem today is that most yourger Americans don’t really understand the power and richness that this people had when the middle class was strong and had a clear voice in Washington. What we require is for Washington to be afraid of us, the people, at every turn. The only way for that to happen is for the people to be strong and stand up for their rights at every turn. No other way exists. The alternative is feudal submission to the rich.