[quote=briansd1][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
We have done a fantastic job of can kicking, though, and then diverting everyone’s attention by deploying wedge issues like gay marriage. That, combined with an emasculated press, places us squarely where we are today.[/quote]

I think that gay marriage is a wedge issue only because some people make it into a wedge issue.

The world has evolved. Gays are accepted in advanced countries around the world, even in a religious state like Israel.

As Hillary Clinton said, gay rights are human rights. Let’s make it so and be done with it, at least in our own country. Why make into a wedge issue?[/quote]

Brian: You simultaneously miss my point and make it for me: Contrived wedge issues like gay rights allow pols from both parties to avoid discussing real, substantive issues and thus continue to kick the can down the road.

“Gay rights are human rights”? What a monumentally stupid pronouncement. Are heterosexual rights human rights? I could care less about gay rights, it isn’t an issue worth delving into. I’d rather discuss meaningful reform.