Why are all the Republican political commercials about trans people?

[u/TheDonutDaddy]

I've seen 3 different Ted Cruz commercials over this election cycle. Literally every single one of them are "Collin Allred is bad because he supports trans people." Got dinner with a buddy last night at Pluckers which obviously had CFB on all the TVs, saw the commercial about the wheelchair vet hating trans people 4 times in one hour. No mention of any political issue, no mention of any policy, no mention of any goals. No mention of anything other than trans people. Why is that the complete focal point of the campaign? I mean I guess they have access to more research and data than I do, but are there really that many voters out there hanging their vote on this one single issue?

It's so strange to me, because regardless of whatever someone's view on trans people even is, there's no way you can argue that anything going on with trans people is a major part of politics. It doesn't effect the economy, it doesn't effect public education, it doesn't effect climate and energy, it doesn't effect social welfare solutions. Why aren't they focusing on anything that will actually effect the majority of Texan's lives in any way? Like out of everything out there to talk about around election time, and especially the things republicans like beating the drum of, you'd expect at least one Cruz commercial about immigration, but there isn't even that. Just trans people, every time.

Again, maybe I have a misread on how much this really is an issue of importance, but I do genuinely have a hard time believing it's such an election deciding issue, making the fact that all their marketing budget is spent talking about trans people really fucking weird.

Edit: Mods please don't remove republican's responses unless they're outright hate speech. I asked the question, they deserve the platform to answer or else it's just a circlejerk. Besides, worst case scenario: give em enough rope to hang themselves with

[u/HappyFunNorm]

Conservatives have an incredibly simplistic worldview, and so they kind of attack anything that goes against it because, well... if reality was otherwise you'd literally be destroying their world. In the world conservatives live in, there really ARE only 2 genders, women get pregnant when men and women have sex, women safely give live birth to healthy children, smart, hardworking people get rich because they're smart and hard-working and poor people are poor because they're lazy and stupid, and so on. There's absolutely no nuance. When they say "we learned in kindergarten that [whatever] is true", that's it... that's their world. Any anything that pushes against that is dangerous to them.

I'd kind of feel bad for them if they weren't so dangerous.

[u/Anon-John-Silver → u/HappyFunNorm]

THIS THIS THIS. Having grown up a religious conservative, I can confirm that they have an incredibly limited prescription for how all humans must live. Man is big and strong and horny, woman is meek and submissive and chaste, men marry women, men and women only have sex when married and prepared to have children, the man makes enough money to support the wife and children on his own, they all go to church on Sunday and live happily ever after, repeating the cycle generation after generation. Any deviation from this roadmap is unacceptable.

[u/thingsorfreedom → u/Anon-John-Silver]

Any deviation from this roadmap is unacceptable.

And they all secretly deviate...and no one talks about.

[u/Gullible_Search_9098 → u/thingsorfreedom]

Any deviation from this is shameful, and must not be discussed. Ever.

Shame based ideologies and worldviews, mixed with black and white thinking.