It takes a village, people

This strategy could actually work:



Ginning up outrage against health care reform efforts that would benefit most Fox viewers is more complicated than sending them into gay panic. Not that the GOP is incapable of it, as we've seen this summer. But convincing even dolts to agitate against their own interests involves some effort: It entails telling and sustaining lies and partnerships with corporations to fund the scare-mongering, with the object being to move the uninformed middle toward one side via sheer volume.

The teabag demo is already prejudiced against LGBT equality and will eagerly pounce on any moves toward advancing it. But there's no real corporate motivation to massively fund an effort to stymie LGBT equality initiatives. As Maher points out, a well-timed repeal of DADT could suck all the oxygen out of the anti-health reform movement by giving the lemmings who underpin it a shinier object on which to focus. And it's the right thing to do into the bargain.

[Cross-posted at Rumproast]