I knew before I started writing this that Doug Mastriano, who is currently running for governor of Pennsylvania, was a piece of shit but after the lightest surface scratch of research it became clear that he is such a large piece of shit that he induces vertigo in all who gaze upon him. The only thing I will give him credit for is being honest and straightforward about how big of a piece of shit that he is.
He is so steeped in his own shittiness that he thinks he's right and couldn't imagine anyone thinking differently than he does. He is a very dangerous person because he thinks that he has God on his side even though he is a hate filled little bigot of a man.
Mastriano is a white Christian Nationalist who is not afraid to cozy up to known antisemites and violent hate groups. He's one of those people that sees everyone as inferior if they aren't a straight white male that agrees with him.
Everything about this guy is more of an air raid siren than a red flag. Take a deep breath and strap in. Here's just a smattering of the batshit lunacy Doug Mastriano thought would be a good idea to say out loud:
He doesn't believe in the separation of church and state. He wants a ban on abortion with no exceptions. He's anti-immigrant and thinks that DACA recipients should be deported. He supports conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ folks because he thinks they're confused and abusively jamming Christianity down their throats will help clear up that “confusion.”
Add all of that to his participation in the attempted coup on January 6th, 2021 he removes all doubt that he is dangerously stupid. He says that if he is elected governor that he will throw out any election result that he doesn't like and would also appoint a secretary of state that would go along with his plans to invalidate democracy.
Doug Mastriano's entire existence is more proof that our education system has been severely eroded over the past several decades. He is clearly a product of the “Red Scare” era and is deathly afraid of anything different from what his church and the military have taught him. He sees everything that isn't a mirror image of himself as an enemy that must be defeated and that is an outlook that doesn't belong in public service. He is proving himself incapable of caring for all of the people so he should not be trusted with the care of any of us.
He has shown a distinct hatred of a large swath of the populace and disguises this hatred as “Conservatism.” The sad thing is that a lot of people will be in denial of this and flat out refuse to see this piece of shit for what he is and will vote for him anyway because of their cult/sports mentality. A growing part of the electorate has chosen to vote for authoritarianism as long as it makes someone else feel bad at the end of the day. I'm so tired of these bullies that don't want society to move forward because they are clinging to an imaginary past that never existed.
We are only four years past the mass shooting at the Tree Of Life Synagogue and Doug Mastriano holds many of the same beliefs as that murderer. It makes me sick to my stomach that we went from condemning hate to being really close to electing that same hate as the governor of our state. Are we really going to adopt fascism because everyone was afraid enough and dumb enough to fall for that great replacement theory bullshit? There is no putting these scumbags back in their holes. They are pushing for violence and shout it as loudly as they can all the while people that point this out are considered alarmists and go mostly ignored.
In comparison, Josh Shapiro does seem to be an alright person. As Attorney General, he did go after people that deserved to be gone after. To name a few, he went after the Catholic Church for diddling children, pharmaceutical companies for creating a new generation of opium addicts and health insurance companies that wanted to fuck over the sick and elderly just because they could.
I'm sure I would have more than one disagreement with Shapiro when it came to policing and any number of other topics but at least he doesn't want to usher in the end of the republic because of some fake white boy grievances. So here we go again having to vote to save our already broken system instead of laughing these assholes out of the room and sending them on their way before they got anywhere near a position of power. And I wonder why there's never any progress.
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