I am so damn mad this morning

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68. Recently I had the misfortune of visiting the midwest.

My own uber-right wing, racist, homophobic and idiotic father (who I had run away from home at 16 years of age) had succumbed to Alzheimer's, and I had to leave one of the best job assignments I've ever had in the bay area to go help get him put in a nursing home... against his will.
Between both drives there and back, and in the time I spent in the area, I was sickened daily by the hatemongering bumperstickers, prevalance of right wing media on the radio and public FOX Noize brainwashing stations in an astounding number of local businesses and truckstops enroute. My brother's neighbor's attempted to preach their hate filled sermons to me regarding my rainbow HRC sticker on my car. While I was staying there just for a month, there was a double murder and suicide-by-cop one night at the place I was staying. By this time I was so shook up I had a cardiac event, just my B/P had gone so high it made me dizzy and the doc at the ER put me on some sedatives. I met my idiot neighbor that after his church sessions on sundays saw to it to spread the gospel of white supremacy to whoever he could get to listen to his ranting. Luckily I was well medicated and just listened to this beer swilling idiot with a deaf ear. Those I did encounter of more moderate beliefs truly are afraid of the gun-toting republi-nazi's. So was I.
I was so shaken up not only by the legal process and trickery we had to employ to force my abusive father into lock-down care and away from my mother, all the sickening garbage I saw and heard, literally on a daily basis.... I was never so glad to see the welcome to California sign again. A month later, all my lab tests were normal again, B/P normal and I was no longer shaking with disbelief.
I can only hope these scared stiff moderates in areas like that are getting motivated enough to make it to the polls and beat down the hater's gerrymandering this time. I believe the shellacking that reasonable candidates received this last midterms has emboldened the idiots enough to where they are convinced they can spread their hatred wide and influentially. I pray to any reasonable diety that they fail.
I can't even think of living somewhere else. I just have to stay in the relatively insular bay area.