Boost of @DrRicardoDuchesne It was in the early 80s that I started thinking that

Boost of @DrRicardoDuchesne It was in the early 80s that I started thinking that capitalism promotes the homosexualization of society; my understanding then was simple —————- capitalism prefers men who are without families, easily drawn into consumerism. The argument, as I understand it today, is a bit more complicated. The founding principles of the US, the “ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, and the emphasis on individual rights which include freedom of markets: “naturally led people to think more carefully about the nature of the individual and gradually…to take seriously the idea of homosexual activity as a matter of personal freedom”.

These words come from the pro-capitalist CATO Institute, which also says
that “capitalism led to industrialization, which led to urbanization, which offered the anonymity of the city to anyone *who chafed under the strictures of the family and the village*”.

In other words, the nature of capitalism is such that is destroys “the strictures of the family and the village [national identities]”

CATO institute says that capitalism, not the progressive politics of the Left, has been the major force behind feminism, rights for nonwhites, and LGBT people. I would rather say that capitalism is inherently leftist and that’s why the corporate Right and the Left have converged.

Here’s the gist of the pro-capitalist CATO argument:

“Once capitalism created the opportunity for people to live autonomously, it unwittingly allowed LGBT people to privilege homosexual desire as a driving force in their lives…All the advances in human rights that we’ve seen in American history—abolitionism, feminism, civil rights, gay rights—stem from our founding ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness The emphasis on the individual mind in the Enlightenment, the individualist nature of market capitalism, and the demand for individual rights that inspired the American Revolution naturally led people to think more carefully about the nature of the individual and gradually to recognize that the dignity of individual rights should be extended to all people….It took longer for people to take seriously the idea of homosexual activity as a matter of personal freedom and to recognize homosexuals as a group of people with rights. But the libertarians and their classical‐​liberal forebears got there first. From Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham to the Libertarian Party and the Cato Institute (where I work), libertarians were ahead of the intellectual curve in applying the ideas of individual liberty to gay people.
Capitalism led to industrialization, which led to urbanization, which offered the anonymity of the city to anyone who chafed under the strictures of the family and the village”
https://www.cato.org/commentary/capitalism-not-socialism-led-gay-rights