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The state is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver’s licenses to help
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Yaah, the teams are nowhere near the same on actual social justice and expanding rights for the public.
Abbot and Cornyn and their side are somewhat retrograde in that aspect. Oh, for it to be 1957 again, when women and minorities knew their "place".. right?
Pffft!
This line is repeated as nauseum as civil liberties are chipped away, year in and year out.
Conservatives make things worse. Liberals throw up their hands helplessly when they have the chance to make things better.
But see? It's two different pieces to the same machine. If everyone in American simply agrees not to turn the ratchet...
Oh, no. You still get the Clinton Crime Bill, the Obama drone strikes, and the LBJ Vietnam War escalation...
We live in a Brave New World where MTG and Lauren Bohbert can fill the roles of Strom Thurmond and George Wallace.
Oh for sure the Democrats have gone closet fascist.. An American "liberal" politician is a centerist by EU standards.. but we have to work with the system and monkeywrench it as best we can until it breaks.
Just saying the two party system is rigged (Yeah, know that) offers no real solution. Saying "don't vote" is how we ended up in this place as too many sit out.
I for one can't wait until the current crop of Democrats - gastly old bats like Nancy Pelosi, and the Chuck Schumers of the party - leave. The party is tied as long as the voters keep re-electing fossils.
Thing is, I AM a registered Republican that voted straight Democratic ticket for the last three elections, and I stay on the GOP rolls to get the press for the new candidates locally. I'm seeing exactly ZERO new GOP candidates that offer anything of value to the public, I see more coming from the new wave of Democrats.
Yes, you are 1,000% correct on the point at the federal level. The issue is money in the big elections and until the push happens to overturn Citizen's United, things won't change.
Personally I've been agitating for a general boycott and consumer strike for years - which could really sting the government - but getting the conformist, consumerist public on board with that is unlikely to happen until there is no more middle class.