If you don't believe they do, learn how to use the google machine and educate yourself. We can debate how to solve the problems of today, but we cannot debate that they exist. Watching video after video of black and brown people being terrorizecd and murdered, the only arbiter between their murder and a slap on the wrist being the color of their skin, makes "agreeing to disagree" a fanciful folly reserved for the naive. It's difficult to see children in cages, knowing those children were ripped screaming from their parents arms with little hope of ever being reunited, and have respect for anyone who supports it. Alas, today's politics are more choices between right and wrong. Sure, if you search high and low you may find a topic so benign that even Trump can't polarize it. In Trump's America, politics are no longer "agree to disagree" scenarios. In addition to rigging the system against black and brown people, it also provides a thin veil of cover for the bigots of today. They've been creating a system so intricate and pervasive for CENTURIES, and because it has been around for so long most people aren't even aware of how far reaching it is. They don't even have to be blatant about it.
Did you know there are racists, too? And that racists have been around and legislating their hate and bigotry for like 400 years? Homophobes are pretty in your face about it all, but racists are sneaky. Instead of resting on the laurels of a life changing Supreme Court win, my eyes had been opened to the plights and trials of other marginalized people. All those years of marginalization and degredation had taught me how to numb myself against even the staunchest of critics, but now I had a taste of true victory. It was a new era, not without its scars, and I had planned on reveling in it. Hodges, that debate quickly lost its lustre. After the landmark ruling in Obergefell v. It was fun at first, taking down neanderthals either too uninformed to have a valuable response or too stupid to even realize your insulting them. In order to insulate my emotions, I turned to my old friend sarcasm. The daily onslaught of pedophila and beastiality allegations were overwhelming. The next few years of watching my rights and value as a person be litigated by politicians, religious leaders and keyboard warriors took a toll I never couldn't have imagined. (Yes, her name is Merlyn.) I had learned from it, and transcended the emotions it inspired. I had dealt with homophobia my entire life, whether it be the torment of children (I am no innocent in that area, either.) or the vitriol spewed by dear old Dad, and his third wife Merlyn. New York had just legalized gay marriage and the sparks of a national debate were beginning to burn bright. There was promise on the horizon for me and my people. I engaged thoughtfully and with an open mind. The simple days of entitlement reform and healthcare debates are a thing of the past. Remember,… way back in days of yore, when you could have a discussion and end it with the infuriatingly passive aggressive “agree to disagree?” The halcyon days when making drug addicts test for food stamps was something you and your cousins could disagree on without coming to blows.