Sacrificing Decency For Conservatism

IN THE MIDST OF the election season's craziness, the television ads are interesting, and revealing. The first thing Republicans running for office try to convince their audience is that they are true, blue, conservative, right down the line, strictly conservative. As if being conservative were a virtue, rather than a serious character flaw and moral deficiency. However, these shrewd right wing candidates know exactly where their bread is buttered, so to speak, they know who watches the ads and who votes; and in red states and red areas, such as the one in which I politically regrettably reside; right is the right way to go. The United States of America, its people, are in fact, progressive, or what we used to call "liberal" before the right wing attack media got hold of the word "liberal", and turned it into a nasty word with bad connotations, forcing liberals to start calling themselves "progressive", a phenomenon at which I roll my eyes, both at the depth of right wing attack hatred, and the panty waisted liberal response to it. A considerable, solid majority of we the American people support and embrace progressive values; pro choice, government health insurance, reduced military spending, more support for education, research, and spending on social programs, redistribution wealth to the poor through progressive taxation, and so forth. Most Americans want these things, surveys repeatedly reveal. Maybe that's because most Americans are not wealthy. We are, in fact, a nation governed by the wealthy, assisting wealthy interests. We the American people are being handed a bill of goods, being ripped off, by a minority of Trump supporters, a minority of right wingers who have sold their souls to Satan in supporting Trump, who is very definitely not a Christian, at least not in terms of behavior. Our conservative candidate in his TV ad is a conservative, Christian, capitalistic gun carrying patriot. As if all those things even have any remote semblance of compatibility. And yet, America's right wing goes about its addled business convinced that they are compatible; convinced that Jesus was a hard working personal wealth collecting gun rights advocate, packing heat for the Lord. America's right wingers are either very good at compartmentalization, overlooking facts, accepting nonsense as fact, or, they are just plain crazy. The way in which they overlook, ignore, justify, or compartmentalize the ceaseless barrage of lies from Trump is astonishing, and worse. Its morally repugnant, and mentally ill. Just ask yourself, particularly if you happen to be a conservative Trump supporter, how you and millions of other Republicans would react if Obama or Hillary said the things Trump says, or were accused of attempted rape. You right winders would organize a lunching party, is what you'd do. Can you imagine what would happen if Obama were caught on tape saying that he can get away with grabbing a woman's pussy any time he wants, because he's a celebrity, or Hillary calling African countries "shit hole countries?", You right wingers would be yelling "lock her up", with your rope in hand, made into a noose. So why do you still support Trump, other than Satan having your soul?