Impetus: guy who wants to run for governor of Georgia drops campaign video where he’s brandishing a shotgun the whole time, pointing it at a young man who recites his campaign points
See, this is the kind of shit that makes me worry for the future of Georgia. I understand that the whole video was meant to be kind of tongue-in-cheek and definitely produced with a sense of humor intended. But surprising to nobody with brains, it falls flat on face and comes off as some gun-crazy hick basically holding a young man hostage and forcing him to read off his generic promises if he’s elected governor.
Most educated, liberal, and/or just people with brains mostly conclude that this was a tasteless campaign commercial, and for all intents and purposes should not help him win the primary. But the problem is that Georgia is filled with a whole lot of people who do not fit the aforementioned criteria. These are people who will have thought this commercial was funny, this commercial was memorable, or worse off, completely agree with everything about the commercial – and then they’ll act on such sticking power, and actually vote for this shithead.
And that has me very scared for the future of this state, if gun-loving hicks like this actually rise to some prominence.
Nathan Deal is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but compared to candidates like this, he may as well be FDR during the Great Depression – a savior to the people who accomplished a tremendous amount in the time he was in office, most recently notably ushering in the movie industry to the state, as well as numerous global businesses to take residence in Georgia. A declared Republican, Deal often saw past the interests of the party in mostly likely the pursuit of money, and has made some astounding liberal choices for the state as a whole, to preserve the continuous influx of outside money to the state, such as overturning blatant anti-gay bills, and hopping aboard the train of attempting to phase out relics of the Confederacy.
I bring this stuff up, because I feel that if a guy like this gun-loving shithead actually succeeds to rising to governor of Georgia, a lot of the successes of Nathan Deal would undoubtedly come to screeching halts. And it’s not just this one example, anyone on the Republican ticket, or even Democratic one, if they’re too far extreme to one direction, then it cannot bode well for the state as a whole one way or the other. But if shotgun shithead somehow wins governor, man, the amount of steps back the entire state of Georgia would go would be catastrophic.
It would be like in Civilization when a primitive nation overtakes a more advanced one on sheer manpower alone, the city shots go from paved roads with advanced architecture to immediately dirt paths and granaries and windmills in their place. Religious rights would rise and choke out gays and minorities, the movie industry would get the fuck out, and companies like Porsche and Mercedes would be more than willing to eat the cost to void leases, just to get out of Georgia to prove points. The right would become emboldened, and guns would rise to American Gods-like saturation, resulting in more gun violence than ever.
The thing is, by all rights, shotgun shithead shouldn’t stand a chance come the primaries. But I would’ve said the same thing back in 2016, but here we stand. In politics, anything is possible, and as long as (part of it) the people as a collective are responsible for choosing leaders, even the worst of humanity can rise to power
And what’s even more frightening is that I’m fairly certain there’s a home in my own neighborhood, brandishing a sign for shotgun shithead, in their front yard. I know very few of my neighbors, but if it’s true that this guy’s sign is in their yard, then I probably am not ever going to want to meet this particular household.
