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I've been saying this for years. What happens is they let their leftist friends bully them into not using it for fear of appearing right wing, and the right wing wins it. Honestly if the right ever figures out they have this power it'll be...interesting...
Young people indoctrinated to socially pressure their peers into following a strict moral code. The parallels are so on-the-nose that it's almost funny.
The Moral Majority horseshoe theory is real as fuck.
What exactly do they win? What do left people lose? It's not like the LGBT movement is the rainbow flag. It's just a symbol, and if it weren't there'd be another one. This whole fighting for a thing makes sense only if there weren't infinite equivalent alternatives.
But to be fair it's really hard to co-opt the symbol of a wholly opposed group.