You know, you may say you're a girl, but we both know you're not.

Actually, I sympathize with these bathroom bans.

Unenforceable (would door guards be posted to - ahem - frisk people at the entrances?) but good symbolism.

I am not in the least interested in licensing persecution of these folks, but such bans are not persecution.

GOP House nominee compares his anti-LGBTQ bigotry to saving Jews from the Holocaust

Likewise, I oppose and deplore as absurd mockery gay marriage.

But these are not half so serious to me as my opposition to abortion.

And yet none of these individually, nor all of them collectively, are deal breakers for me.

On social as well as class issues, voters are faced with two opposing teams increasingly committed to extremes.

One party favors abortion on demand for the whole term of the pregnancy and is apt to favor infanticide on demand as soon as they dare, while the other favors a nearly total prohibition of abortion and would never in human imagination favor infanticide.

I am closer to the Republicans; forced to choose I will choose their position.

One party favors gay marriage, adoption by same-sex couples, women in combat, and even greater absurdities in deference to sexual outlawry, post-modernist feminism, and gender revolutionism while the other would turn back the clock on the law regarding all things sexual to 1950.

I am about equidistant from both, though I find the Dem position far less cruel though much more absurd.

Forced to choose I will choose the Dems position.

With the GOP and increasingly against the Dems I favor capital punishment and long sentences.

To my knowledge there is not any actual, formal issue position of the contemporary GOP regarding race that I do not agree with.

I would prefer that whites remain a politically dominant demographic majority in the US, since I have no wish that I, my family members, or my near descendants suffer the greater or lesser indignities of minority status.

Sometimes I sympathize with the libertarian view that private economic agents ought not to be subject to government-enforced nondiscrimination.

And I generally sympathize with the legal toleration of racially, religiously, or otherwise exclusive private clubs, such as men-only or whites-only country clubs.

I am pro-capitalism (and anti-socialism and anti-Communism) without being personally a capitalist, and favor the careful sort of free-trade/fair-trade, globalizing deals favored by O and Hillary and center-left Democrats as well as Republicans.

And I would much prefer the American security forces use torture, if necessary (and useful), to prevent a serious radiological, let alone a genuine nuclear, attack on the US, or maybe on anyone, though I would also prefer that the police eschew it and not return to the third degree as a tool for choking out false confessions in preference to actually trying to find out and punish the truly guilty.

Forced to choose, I prefer a system in which education is overwhelmingly in private hands, and some of it religiously affiliated in one way or another, rather than that education be overwhelmingly - much less entirely - in the hands of state agencies committed to an official view of anything or an official secularism.

Why do I vote for Democrats, every single time?

Because they have built and today defend over a century of progressive achievements in aid of the common people nearly all of which have benefitted, do benefit, or will benefit myself and my wife and my immediate - however stupidly ungrateful - family.

While Republicans have opposed those achievements every step of the way and to this day would tear them all down if they could, putting myself, my wife, and my immediate family in a perilous fix.

Why am I a registered Democrat?

So I can vote in my state's closed primaries.