As far as a campaign advisor – I’ve been around politics for 15 years and once served as a communications director in a US Senate primary. Not that that means anything – as the campaign pros – like the ones that advised John Kerry not to respond to the Swift Boat ads – are usually wrong.

There are those of us who know that if the Democrats don’t overcome the wimp factor – they will lose, once again. There are liberals, such as myself who are fed up with losing and don’t believe in unilateral political disarmament and passivism. Politics is a contact sport and we need to rough up the Republicans to win.

If you think reading “The Secret” and thinking positively will win us the election – see Dukakis, Kerry and Mondale.

I think this column was a lucid road map and the Democrats can ignore it at their own peril.

Finally, it was wonderful to see Hillary do the right thing. If she had not, her political career would be over. Instead, she was terrific and has remained a party hero – thus making her the favorite in a future presidential race.

The thing that upsets me most, is they all seem to be blissfully unaware of how politics affect their lives, because politics don’t. When they think of gay people they only think of media stereotypes and people who hit on them in high school, essentially creeping them out. Even though they know I’m gay they almost always seem to forget that fact. They’ll use the F-word frequently around me and think it’s ok as long as they’re not referring to me, and they seem to generally posses a strong disposition against any minority group. Did I mention they’re all Atheists, though and irrational religious beliefs are in no way motivating this behavior? These guys are a representation of the future white, male American voters. They come from every state in the union. My only friends who even mildly care about politics are GLBT themselves.

That being said. I doubt we’ve really made any progress. We may think we have. But No. I think much of GLBT rights-fighting policy in recent years has been sending us back to the stone ages due to our continuing to pander to our own base and not get enough of the word out to straight people. No self-respecting heterosexual in our society would be caught dead reading a site with any news focused on the GLBT community, and that’s a cultural issue we should try and fight to see change. As a psychologist, myself, I always try to do my part to express the empirically defined truths of the world to those around me, but my views, coming from an out gay man, are always weighed against years of reinforced stigma, and dozens of high school teachers, college professors, and even certified mental health counselors who got to my friends and those around me first. What did they all have to say? Nothing good for my or your sake, that’s for sure, and certainly nothing that would qualify as ethical.

If we want Obama to honestly win I think he should act like a real politician and start lying his rear off about false promises he can’t possibly keep, including promises to continue reinforcing stereotypes and limiting the rights of minorities. He doesn’t have to mean what he says, but if he can find some group of people that American voters hate (that isn’t hard to do) he can use that scapegoat as a platform for populatity among the uneducated (and thus 90% of the United States voters) We all know that’s how Clinton, Bush, and every president all the way back to Truman won an election. It’s time to talk about this like adults and recognize that political correctness has no place in earning popularity points when most of the public responds to fear-mongering and hateful diatribes. Why else would churches be so popular? Why else would even my non-Christian friends favor the views of their hate-mongering, right-wing, conservative teachers/therapists over my own? Because people LOVE to hate.

The Democrats have lost another election.

Two days in a row, Hillary is not only the talk of the convention but absolutely stunning in the way that she has carried herself.

Let us all look forward to 2012 and for a bright future for everyone.