Bill Johnson,
I'm a frequent reader, seldom contributor.. I find you to be a fascinating poster, and sometimes can't tell if you're using schtick / trolling or not. But I'm super curious.. do you still 'identify' as a gay man? I imagine homosexuals are still on the short list for potential targets of the right in the fascist playbook.. I'm mean there is a subset of men are not comfortable sharing locker rooms/open showering areas with gay dudes.. (even if reformed/non practicing). Would you support separate bathrooms for gay men if that was a thing? I mean to protect the kids of course! I'm not sure how far off we are from that..
actually... maybe not, I'm sure there are enough prominent Gay me in seats of power on both sides to keep the cross-hairs away at this point.
But it doesn't take much to imagine a situation where we go back to the 1970s view on homosexuality and many feeling that they didn't have the right to exist.. and argued biology, "if you have a penis, the you should like woman..., it's biology!!" I believe I read that you're 'a reformed homosexual' at this point, but what if it was "or 'ever' practiced homosexuality, once gay always gay!" included in the persecution.
FTA: "What is it that attracts these types to Trump specifically? I believe that he, more than any other candidate on offer, represents the archetypal abusive father figure with whom many of them have a masochistic and sexually charged relationship."
I wonder about this.. as someone who has a strained relationship with their father.. and coincidentally said father embodies a lot that is Trump. Even from a looks standpoint.. One could say, he is of the Trump "Archetype". I absolutely revile Trump, and I wonder how my level of revulsion may be influenced by my own family dynamics. But I see how that could have swung the other way, if the variables were all slightly different.