Politics is kind of a labyrinth. By that I mean it’s really easy to muddy the waters when it comes to campaigns. Unless you follow it day in and day out, it’s pretty easy to forget what people said six months ago, let alone years ago. No matter what political party you’re more inclined to vote for, don’t think that your preferred politicians are immune to such things as lying, hierocracy, or flip-flopping when it’s politically convenient for them to do so. It’s just the nature of the game of politics.

Depending on the degree of said flip-flop or hypocritical statement one can make a judgment on how it affects them and the way that they vote which is fair and a right every person has. Not every flip-flop is created equal. People, even politicians, are allowed to change their mind based on new evidence. But there is one instance, though, that has been bugging me lately.

I’ve been hearing that all of the sudden conservatives are the champions of minorities, women, and the LGBTQ community. I scratched my head and tried to think and give them the benefit of the doubt, but to no avail. How could the party that fought tooth and nail to make sure gay marriage was never allowed in the U.S. be alongside them now? A party that calls black people welfare queens, a party that listens to O'Reilly tell black people it’s their culture and violent tendencies that are the root of all their problems, and a party that literally tried to suppress black people from voting they are fighting the good fight with them?

I would never paint a broad brush about people. Just because you vote Republican doesn’t mean you’re automatically a racist, or even say that one particular party is inherently racist, but, and it’s a big 'but,' there is one political party that kind of, sort of, a little bit, invites the racists and bigots over to hang out sometimes for a little a while, and that party is the Republican Party.

A party that cares so much about illegal immigration that they don’t really propose any policies about the northern border, about where most of the illegal immigration comes from, but just the southern one where all the brown people come from, and now they all of the sudden are welcoming of immigrants and refugees?

I could go on and on for days upon days of debunked rhetoric that the right has launched against, black people, Hispanics, LGBTQ people, and any other minority you can think of, so I’ll just cut to the chase and tell you no they aren’t the champion of any of these people's struggles or causes.

The way they justify themselves as being on the side of these groups is, in fact, their hatred for another group. Muslims to be more specific. They trot out all of these fun statistics, and facts about predominately Muslim countries. The annoying thing about it is they aren’t entirely wrong. There are places that are majority Muslim that women aren’t equal to men, where anyone of the LGBTQ community will be executed just because, where freedom of religion isn’t a thing, and minorities don’t have the same protections as other countries.

The problem is where these conservative talking heads take these facts on their long spiral of justification not only to hate and discriminate against Muslims, but to feel that, because of the hatred and 100 percent no tolerance of anything Muslim, that they, somehow, are on the same side as the people, of which is just plain wrong.

I’m not up here on my high horse trying lecture people about bigotry in the U.S. I’m not perfect when it comes to any of these issues, but I try my best, and I sure as heck know that hatred of one group doesn’t mean you’re a defender of another group, when you haven’t really done jack to help the groups you claim to be “supporting.” In fact, most of the time you’ve gotten in the way of the advancements and equality that these groups have been striving for.

So please, conservatives stop wasting our time and saying that you’re standing up for minorities because you want to ban all Muslims from the country. You don’t care, you’re muddying the water to get votes. If you really cared about the people you say Muslims don’t like then you would help do something about systematic racism, you wouldn’t be against the Lilly Ledbetter Act, and you most certainly wouldn’t be trying to propose bills about transgender people going into the bathroom of their choosing because of “children’s safety.” Cut the crap, and try something else.