Jesus Guns Babies - and the Never-Ending Noise of Demagogues

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

The campaign bus of Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor resembles something that might have been created by illustrators working for Mad Magazine, or perhaps The Onion.  The monster coach looks to have more square footage than my modest country home, and it is embellished with an enormous photograph of the candidate along with conservative messaging that transforms the vehicle into quite an imposing billboard on wheels.

The conservative candidate vows to "paint Georgia red," and she emphasizes her strategy by posing in a bright red blazer and sporting bright red lipstick.

Dr. Taylor, a former third grade teacher, is campaigning in what appears to be a new, and obviously very expensive, ride.  But the elegance of her bus is almost lost among the provocative messaging that adorns the vehicle.  In what some critics have suggested might be a nod to the Second Coming, the candidate declares:  "I'm The ONE You've Been Waiting For!"  Next to that humble declaration she has posted her campaign slogan - three words in a bulleted listing format:

• Jesus
• Guns
• Babies

Kandiss Taylor and her staff designed that brief listing to fire-up conservative voters, never mind the incongruities of linking the Prince of Peace with weapons of death, or guns with a pro-life stance.  Conservative voters are very adept and ignoring moral and ethical inconsistencies which threaten their core beliefs.

There is never a shortage of politicians eager to whip the misinformed and under-educated into a frenzy of fear and anger. Their messages don't have to be logical or even true, they just have to get people pissed off.  "Jesus Guns Babies" is one of those messages.

Legitimate political discourse has now been reduced to little more than the never-ending noise of demagogues.