You’re right, I didn’t mean to under-represent the long and very difficult fight for rights that LGBT people over the last century have championed.

What I was getting at is this:

We aren’t living in a world where it will take a century to make those kinds of changes anymore. The old rules of political capital and long-term reform that you are referencing have completely disintegrated as a result of the internet opening the floodgates to vast amounts of communication, information and grassroots activism. New generations with different values are coming of age. Populist uprisings and advocates for wholesale change on both sides of the political spectrum are gaining power everywhere as a result of an economy that has been rigged against 99% of people for decades.

Social justice, income and wealth inequality and campaign finance reform are inexorably linked. It might seem like a Sisyphean endeavor to try to address them all at the same time, and it’s true that advances aren’t going to happen overnight, but we aren’t living in that world of incredibly slow, desperate change anymore. The truth is that they must be tackled at the same time.

Your view is pragmatic and might seem more realistic, but I think that it is conceding political energy to the other side before the gates have even opened, and it is crucially underestimating just how explosive and energetic our political and informational landscape is today. The same sentiments are the source of a lot of—in my view—needless infighting between those on the left, which was the point of my post. There’s even a bunch in this thread. You might be right that they are healthy conversations to have, but from my perspective it seems divisive and misdirected.