Conservatives don't actually care about kids at all. Which is why they're fine with forced child marriage, fine with forced "corrective" surgery on intersex kids that they always put an exception in for their anti-trans bills, and fine with girls getting breast enlargement surgeries.
Because it's not about protecting kids or "consent", it's about having a new boogeyman to fight against, now that it's at least slightly more morally objectionable to go after gay people, though that's not stopping them from trying there either.
Oh yeah we all know that (except for some obvious exceptions in this thread). It's always been about keeping the masses mad at each other so the top can take their share.
(Replace foreigner with any marginalized group and you'll have the GoP's talking points)
Gay people got married and became boring suburanites and became too conservative for conservatives to vilify anymore.
Trans people are now the sex-orgy demons who only live in cities and are hellbent on destroying society.
Conservatives live miserable lives with painfully fake smiles, and take offense when someone decides to embrace who they are instead of towing the miserable line. "It's not faaaiiir" when other people don't have to be miserable like them, and so they set out to rectify that.
These are the same people that advocate nothing in society should ever improve, that suffering is always deserved, and that we should always work to regress to less civilized times.
After leaving my (very conservative) home, and going back every so often and talking to my family, I think this is it. Especially for the older ones, I get a sense of regret from them that they didn't live how they wanted or couldn't do what they wanted. Since they don't want to blame themselves and/or the culture, they blame their vilified minority du jour. It's sad really. Going home and talking to my parents always just makes me sad about how I can tell they have some pretty big regrets about taking the "expected" path.
Because Republicans need an other to attack. It used to be nonwasps then it became lgbtq and now its.trans kids. They don't care about the actual kids at all, if they did the first thing they'd do is actually listen to them.
Let me guess without watching the video:
They’re the new boogeyman that the GOP elected officials need to create in order to get votes. Not unlike gay cakes, Mexican walls, and “they’re coming for your guns!”
Conservatives are predominantly Christians and Christians scare very easily. It’s at the foundation of the entire religion. So it only makes sense that they would be motivated by fear to be urged to vote.
God they’re so fucking stupid.
This is pretty much it for every culture war bullshit flavor of the year. Republicans can't win on policy because their REAL policies that they actually want are just "more money for ultra wealthy." That's it. That's the whole Republican agenda, more money for the ultra wealthy by cutting taxes and cutting OUR entitlements so the country can afford to not tax the wealthy. More money for the wealthy by cutting regulations that PROTECT US. More money for the wealthy by allowing mergers, monopolies, etc...
They need people to vote for them so they find a topic to have their propaganda outlets focus on and suddenly it seems "organic" when in reality the people are being manipulated to all be mad at the same thing at the same time. it's sad and hilarious that they also consider themselves "free thinkers."
Conservatives are obsessed with social conformity and rule-following. They hate change, difference, and those who don't 'fit in'. Trans people don't fit into the neat binary of male/female and don't follow strict gender roles. So by definition they are evil/bad/wrong/corrupting and a 'symbol of social decay' or whatever.
Conservatives see the existence of trans people as violation of the social order/contract or as unnatural. They see them being endorsed by the govt as fully fledged human beings as an offense to their beliefs and a threat to to their way of life. So they lean into this outrage narrative by pushing/magnifying any story they can that trans people and their supporters as 'brainwashing' children and they pull out the who 'groomer' thing because they see pedophilia as the ULTIMATE EVIL that anyone who is disagrees with them must be guilty of, because disagreeing with them is evil in their minds.
The rest is just the false narrative they construct to further solidify their views that trans people and trans supporters are evil. So they go on about children being forced to change sex and being 'multilated' by sex changes ops. None of which actually happens, but you can't let the boring facts of reality get in the way of your narrative about how trans people and trans supporters (and the big bag government!) are raping and physically mutilating the poor innocent children who need to be rescued by the brave strong heroic conservative who will restore the natural order and throw all these evil child abusers in jail!
One thing conservatives do so often us punch down.
They’re terrified of change, especially change that makes them think they’re losing control of their so called values.
Probably because they themselves want to diddle Trans kids. That's their usual M.O. Projection Projection Projection.
