Office Hours: The Republicans’ sexual obsession
They’re now seeking to prohibit everything except plain vanilla
This past weekend, a speaker at CPAC declared that “transgenderism must be eradicated” in America.
Tennessee Republicans have banned drag performances with a new law so ambiguously written that it could criminalize not only drag performers but transgender people simply existing in public.
Iowa Republicans have introduced bills to ban same-sex marriage.
The GOP is targeting LGBTQ+ Americans, introducing more than 300 anti-LGBTQ+ bills nationwide last year.
Ron DeSantis is purging Florida public schools of any mention of gender identity or sexual orientation.
Meanwhile, anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes are on the rise, with the past two years being the deadliest on record for transgender Americans.
Under Trump, the Republican Party celebrated white supremacists and antisemites. The post-Trump Republican Party continues this despicable tradition but is also encouraging hate and bigotry toward anyone whose gender identity or sexual orientation is different.
Today’s Office Hours questions: Why are Republicans fueling this horrific fire? Where will it lead?
Well, when you botched a pandemic, hypocritically told people a plague wasn't real while taking the vaccine behind the scenes, when you fled for your lives from the forever-alone Army you unleashed on the Capitol and now have to shamefully deny doing so to try to hold on to power, when you let billions disappear into fraud and stock buybacks with no oversight while trying to claim the other party is fiscally irresponsible, and when the new generation of voters is vehemently opposed to most of what you stand for, you don't really have a lot of options to win elections. Ramping up fear and attacks on the "other" is America's real favorite pastime, a time-tested strategy for getting people to show up at the school board meetings, town halls and voting booths.
Robert, I hate to admit this but, I have Republican family members and friends that are so hateful and bigoted towards LGBTQ and Trans that I don’t even talk to them anymore. They are so filled with hate and venom against these people that I can’t stand to be around them or even speak to them. Of course they are all Republicans. Their hate filled agenda has polluted their minds. These used to be decent reasonably open minded people but, not anymore. Not since Trump. I guess maybe they always felt that way and it just took a monster like him to bring out the monster in them. Now there’s no going back. Black people are no longer black to them they are the N word. You can’t reason with them. You can’t rationalize with them. Hate is all they spew now. I have given up on them and closed the door. What else can you do? You can’t let that kind of toxicity into your life. The Republicans are hell bent on breaking up America.