They love cheap housing, guns, and no income Tax
But they freeze to death in the era of Climate Change. Shortcuts don't make institutions prosper.
It’s more than that. It’s the last big flagship of conservative policies (even though they aren’t) in America. Without Texas, The Republican Party is flyover country and the southern states. If the Oil and Gas powers are toppled here, it’s all over because without this controlled market, dependency drops. Texas is paramount to ability to keep alive antiquated ideas that keep a few rich and everyone else reliant on them.
It’s all about money and nothing else. If anything, these so-called conservative policies are nothing more than either the government telling you what do while doing as it pleases (“Conservative” war on contraceptives, abortions, and sex education while supporting state executions and deeply flawed policing and justice system) or the government controlling the means of production (by enacting laws and favorable conditions) for the sake of a few rather the full lot of constituents they serve.
I’m starting to hear more and more traction about the following 2 things as talking points.
1) That mayor was right, because even if you pay for a service to be provided you shouldn’t rely on anyone but yourself. The money without the responsibility. You shouldn’t rely on a restaurant to bring your food to your table. In fact, don’t even go. Grow and make your own food. Forge your own tools and kitchen. Do everything yourself, but by all means keep the restaurant in business.
Now, think if people pooled their money together and started going solar? Relying on themselves to provide energy to their homes in large numbers. Judges in Texas would be juggling gavels to put a stop to it. Corporations would pitch the biggest fit and apply pressure on politicians to make it unaffordable or regulated to the point people couldn’t do it. And yet a lot of people would cheer it on because it’s about their pocketbooks. It’s lunacy in its’ finest hour.
2) Ted Cruz should be able to go on vacation in peace because there wasn’t anything he could do.
Obama couldn’t golf in peace. Nancy can’t get a haircut in an empty shop in peace. Gavin Newsome couldn’t have a dinner party with friends in peace and the people down the street having 30 people for thanksgiving during a pandemic shouldn’t be able to either. People walking in private businesses that require masks without them deserve that same smoke too.
We should have certain expectations of ourselves and our politicians. If you want to do something, you have to be prepared for the repercussions.
That mayor couldn’t have done much to fix the situation (Same with Ted Cruz) on their own , but by applying pressure to responsible parties, asking questions and demanding answers, and doing everything they can for their constituents is what good politicians. I’m accountable to me until it affects someone else. Politicians are accountable to everyone at all times. It shouldn’t be partisan.
And really this is what it comes down to. Not ideological differences, but instead what does PUBLIC SERVICE really mean. You know, a lot of people outside New Orleans hated Ray Nagin post-Katrina. He held people accountable. He asked questions and demanded answers of both Democrats and Republicans. You know who didn’t hate him? His constituents. He did everything he had the power to do. He stayed and suffered with his people. He was on the frontlines. Ted Cruz and the ex-mayor Colorado City, Texas aren’t public servants, and it’s in many different ways that conclusion manifests itself.
The problem is the voting populace who lack critical thinking skills, refuse to take responsibility for their own actions, and support a system that clearly doesn’t work in a way they purport it does. It’s clear, the government’s only use is to force people to do what they want for only their benefit and the system failed just like they wanted it to. So less government to make even shyttier mistakes.
Notice: Anyone know what MTG’s or Bobbert’s actually policy positions are?
