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I think it's a cop-out to say that your movement failed because it was sabotaged by guerrilla gay-ops.
More likely than not, it's a consequence of American political parties trying to juggle too many conflicting issues at once. For instance, what sense does it make for the party of big government to want the government to be hands-off when it comes to immigration? Why does the party of small government support the trappings of a state-sponsored religion? There's not much rhyme or reason to it. Parties adopt political issues to drum up votes, and existing members typically just fall in line with whatever the party's stance is on the hot new wedge issue.
The problem isn't with the parties sabotaging each other-- it's with the long-term consequences of first-past-the-post voting systems that create an environment where only two parties can thrive (Duverger's law). From that point on, every issue turns into a binary where everything gets sorted into two choices. Imagine if you had to choose between "The Beatles are my favorite band and Pepsi is my favorite drink," or "The Rolling Stones are my favorite band and Coke is my favorite drink." If you like the Beatles and Coke, go fuck yourself. That's basically the logic we're operating on at this point.
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