>But I disagee with you if you think that our current situation was
>produced democratically, and that more democracy would make it worse.
I don't think it was produced democratically, no. But we've got to deal with the world that we inherited, and on many many issues, Americans hold fairly barbaric views.
>Even on issues on which is most popular to be reactioary, public
>opinion is to the left of current public policy. Anti-gay prejudice
>(this really isn't a strong enough term but I don't know a word
>equivalent to "racism" to describe the oppression of gays -
>Isherwoods's "Hetorsexual Dicatorship" perhaps?)
There's the old reliable - heterosexism.
Doug