The Log Cabin is on fire
I am hard pressed to understand the Log Cabin Republicans’ endorsement of Trump for President in 2020. Of course, to be honest, I am hard pressed to understand the Log Cabin Republicans at all. That any group of LGBTQ people who supports a party with platforms as blatantly homophobic and transphobic as the Republican Party is mind-boggling.
Based on conversations I have had with Log Cabin Republicans — and, granted, it’s been awhile since I have spoken with any of them — they live in a bubble of cognitive dissonance, where they boast they can “change the party from within.”
That might be believable if they were actually welcomed into the party. But they are consistently and vehemently excluded from exhibiting at GOP conventions, and their suggestions to soften party anti-LGBTQ rhetoric are ignored.
I have tried to get into the mind of a gay Republican, but I am afraid it will take someone with professional credentials to fathom that degree of disconnect from reality. At best, they are pushing for a lost cause, and at worst, they are delusional.
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and find out for yourself. The entire human race tends to be basically oriented liberal or conservative by personality, and these basic wirings affect choices made through life. They tend to see moral issues differently, and brains even process information in different orders. When people can be born wired to be left- and right-handed, it shouldn't be too strange to realize that how we think can also be somewhat predetermined. Only somewhat, "nurture" overall seems far stronger. Fascinating subject.
Now, LGBTQ are members of the human race, aren't they? I wasn't insulting LGBTQ by saying some would be wired conservative, and I certainly wasn't saying we have a bunch of rainbow trumpsters in the Democratic Party. It's how we use our brains and the choices that we make, and most LGBTQ choose to vote Democrat regardless of personality type. For good reason.
Of course this means that the words liberal and conservative each have more than one meaning: their neuropsychological personality meaning and the traditional ones as descriptions of sociopolitical behaviors and alignments. They're not the same thing. People with dominant liberal personality, for instance, can and often do align politically conservative because that's what people "like them" in their area do. And when Pew explains that we are all mixtures of opinions from across the spectrum but average out dominant conservative or liberal, this is what they're talking about. Notably, by both definitions, no matter what words pundits use, there is no "moderate" political type -- we're all either liberal or conservative.
* While on the subject, should be accurate and point out that some are defining a third, small personality group called libertarian because some are strikingly different in lacking the altruism both liberals and conservatives feel and have one main principle of personal freedom; for their hardcores, it's reportedly the only principle. Ayn Rand was probably a true example, and Paul Ryan with his draconian economic plan that was far too extreme for today's Republicans in congress (!). They also reportedly tend to have the most analytical minds of all 3 groups, not smarter but a bit more able to avoid being drawn down the wrong path by emotions and leaping to wrong assumptions. Politically, they tend to vote strong economic conservative.
Hope this at least clears up what I meant until you get one of the very intriguing books on this fairly new subject. Some go far beyond this narrow focus to the mass political behaviors and patterns we're all caught up in, super enlightening. Btw, discussion is now smoked-screened with controversy, so you'll see a lot of denial. Self-identified conservatives especially tend not to be flattered by what researchers report about them, to put it mildly it doesn't fit their self image. Speaking of, it helps explain how many in academia can sincerely self identify as liberals but sound a lot more like conservatives when talking about liberals. Getting a PhD doesn't require a talent for self awareness. 
No matter who one is, if you have genetic or learned leanings toward America's "conservatism", it's quite easy to fall into the cesspool of hard-right dogma on Faux News and talk radio or from family or coworkers.
After a few years, they're just cookie-cutter Rethugs.....
... group. There are also small groups of other traditionally Democratic people. The "Log Cabin Republicans" get too much attention... I used to think these people, especially "Black Republican" groups, had some hope the Party would get back to its Liberal Democratic/Progressive roots... but, in the era of Trump, there is no excuse for any of these people to be around. The "Log Cabin" group should stick with their Democratic brothers and sisters, even if they are not being targeted... and the ARE... the Deplorables would not hesitate to take away marriage rights and are even working to get employers to fire them for being Gay. The "Log Cabin" people should be ashamed....
