Running On Empty

RADIO AND TV advertising for Republican candidates is becoming creepier and scarier, much like the mainstream Republican ideology, moving inexorably to the far right, back towards the remote past of intolerance and hatred. For instance, the radio annoucner, stentorian in tone, belts out: "She is by far the most conseravtive member of the state house! More conservative than anyone running against her! She will stand up against those big corporations who are trying to turn our conservative state into another San Francisco!!... That right there has to make you wonder. Her main qualification to be elected is that she will keep her state from being like San fransisco? Nothing about the economy......climate change......just......San Francisco is prohibited! Obvioiusly, its easy to figure out what this means, even though its mentally ill. After all, mental illenss is what our modern Republicans are all about, fantasies about stolen elections, and all the rest of their inanity. San Fransisco is where all those gay and transgender people live, those sinful weirdos who overtake their communities and force good white, Christian straight people to accept their debauchery. The truth, of course, is that San Fransisco, like most American cities, is progressive, and tolerant of all, regardless of sexual orientation, religion, and all that stuff. The best way to get elected, if you are a conservative and appealing to your base in a, backward, right wing true blue part of America, is to make it perfetly clear that you will fight against gays and transgenders, and work to marginalize them and discriminate against them, since hatred of nonconformity is a primary conservative value. To America's right wingers, gays and transgenders are some kind of threat, to be resisted and eliminated, through "conversion therapy", which is a form of cruelty, torture, and mental illness widely encourged by conservatives.