Fairness - The Commentary

Right-wing politicians so far this year have proposed over 325 anti-LGBTQ bills around the country, exceeding the previous record of 268 set last year. That’s no coincidence as if these proposals have just arisen spontaneously from the grassroots. This is a well-funded national , top-down strategy promoting fear-tested methods aiming to destroy not only any gains LGBTQ people have made in the larger public consciousness but also to end the threat of an open, historically and evidenced based public educational system. Florida is just the most widely talked about model because its governor is positioning himself to capture the cult-like allegiance of those who fall for it in order to become the next Republican messiah. But it’s played out all over the country even with Republican women representatives actually following transgender people into men’s bathrooms to gain political points as brazenly and cruelly as possible.   Right-wing strategists intentionally followed their quite suc...