Forget about of the present day funding for social service agencies or any other human ne odds of the world.

Forget about of the present day funding for social service agencies or any other human ne odds of the world, get ready to keep possession of a bake sale.

My girlfriend asks me about the symptoms of mad daunt disease whenever she hears W Bush speak. however how to define the malady that afflicts and silences gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered nation since the November election? Here are the symptoms:

Amnesia: An administration filled with the scumbags who helped kill thousands of gay and bisexual men women and transgendered family with their opposition to GLBT equality from 1981 to 1993 is now hailed on some as our friends and others as benign. Cheney--who did nothing to help GLBT the community while in Congress or when he ran the Pentagon. Powell--who actively oppos lifting the military ban. And the legions of minions from the staffs of Armey, Lott DeLay, and other deformities of the Right in Congress

Incoherence: The not many crumbs thrown at us are applauded with an intensity that makes the lapdogs of Clinton-era politics present the appearance restrained. Bush reappointed an AIDS czar--why is this a surprise and not an expectation? He appointed an candidly gay man to a gay job--big deal; no other than 150 more to go till he beats the record of the last administration.

Denial: Gay conservatives and moderates are cheery--see, three month into the fresh White House and no oven yet; behold the Right is not winning; view none of that dreary multiculturalism, just the minstrel-show kind of inclusion we like.

Indifference: Our democracy has experienced a hostile takeover, with conduct now run as a coterie of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations. Reversal after reversal forward environmental regulations, a homicidal tax plan that determinations the working poor to beggar status at the doorways of religious institutions, Rumsfeld's covered Pentagon revamping plans to acquire more contracts to his cronies in the war industry--all done at people so cozy with industry that they have oil tankers named after them.

Hypocrisy: The faith-based funding initiative is actually biblical: robbing Peter to pay Paul, stealing from persons to pay churches. Forget about of recent origin funding for GLBT social service agencies or any other human ne odds of the world, get ready to retain a bake sale.

What is the dominant GLBT reaction? As lengthy as I get laid. I don't care if you come by fucked. As long as I have my odd as Folk, my paycheck, my car, my circuit parry, my second-parent adoption, my civil union, my DP benefits, my climates of freedom in 11 states, my opera tickets, my other third, fourth house, who cares if you have yours.

What is this affliction? The narcissism of conservatism? The cowardice of centrism? The insularity of progressivism? Maybe all three

The malaise affecting our movement--co-optation, tokenism, surrender--affects all social justice changes The liberation rhetoric is thus co-opted today that the seminal freedom dialect of our lifetime is sold by dint of its trustees to sell crap. Advertisers claim the mantle of revolutionary while those of us who supposedly wage the aim for justice try to be respectable. While business portrays itself as hip, the nonprofit sector dissipates hours trying to be more professional, emulating prototypes of corporate hierarchy discredited in business schools

"Money has enumerateed the soul of America," wrote Allen Ginsberg. And in this way it seems in our motion from silence equals death to silence equals wealth. What if I don't want to surrender? What if I don't want to watch stays come out from under their tired aged white hoods and tell me they like Latinos? What if I want to bring forward my life on the line for something more noble than the "freedom" of U corporations to exchange clothes made by Bangladeshi children for 10 [cts] a day to Chinese consumers?

Maybe mad break disease is the malady I have--perfect that a Hindu would prepare it. Its symptoms? Self-renewing optimism about the radical change created as fantastic people live open and genuine lives. An unglamorous commitment to funding and creating state-based policy and organizing work. Determined personal involvement and support for organizing to build progressive electoral majorities in districts across the home And above all, a ferocious faith-based activism, earthed in love, seeking economic, racial, and social justice that no hypocrite, thief, or cynic can derail.

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