DATE: 7 July 2009
TO: Certain Democratic Party Leaders, including Several DNC Members
SUBJECT: Re: Silent Partners: The Other Victims of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell [An Article Shared by the Democratic News Group]
Despite the recent setbacks in California, nationwide the tide is turning in the right direction (the direction of human rights, not the direction of the Right). I believe that history will consider the DADT policy like much else of the Clinton Era: a time of transition and “compromise,” from the ignorance of the Reagan Era to the enlightenment of a new Progressive Era, as during the turn of the previous century.
But as I’ve written before, acceptance of progressive principles that strike so very close to a person’s identity — especially racial, gender, sexual, or religious identity — will take longer than and will be dependent upon the success of pragmatic progressive policies — particularly in the economy, including health care and education, not coincidentally the first priorities of the present progressive administration. Get the votes for and positive results from the latter, and then and only then might you expect to get widespread support for and the rightful rewards from the former. It’s not the (perfect) way God would do it; it’s the (imperfect) way human nature seems to me to dictate.
Doug
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