You know all those migrants entering your state, fleeing the shit happening back home? Follow their example, pack up and move somewhere else. Texas being shit is nothing new and that won't change.

[–] felixthecat@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 12 points 10 months ago (8 children)

We can't win it from the idiots if we all pack up and leave. I'm in this battleground state and I'm standing my ground. When Trump gets the nomination I'm going to do my best to remind the Republicans that I know that Trump has said he wants to become a dictator and uses the same blood purity bullshit racist rhetoric in speeches just like Hitler. I'm going to make them face the uncomfortable truth that a vote for Trump today is akin to a vote for Hitler in 1930s Germany.

I mean the parallels are uncanny at this point. The only thing missing is Trump actually getting jail time for attempting to overthrow democracy. At least Germany had the balls to put Hitler away before his rise to power.

The craziest part of the Republican party now is that they actually like Russia. What happened to them? Ruskie commies were the supposed mortal enemy of them until the fall of the USSR. now they want to help them? We gave the afghans a ridiculous amount of weapons and training to fight Russia and they used that later in terror attacks against us, but now we have the perfect opportunity to put the military industrial complex to use without putting Americans in the line of fire with a people that are highly unlikely to do the same as al queda. Oh but suddenly now its just too expensive to fund? Really this point needs to be driven home to all the military humping douches that would gladly suck the dick of anyone that has served in the military. Really what happened? We're really living in a time where the party that supports the military industrial complex more is the Democrats?

Honestly we need a new government. We have the technology to implement direct democracy. Our constitution and government are horribly outdated and the checks in the system are being pushed to the limit in all branches of federal government. Our state is failing and if we continue the ultra rich .01% billionaire class will soon rule our nation openly with impunity. We desperately need a new progressive movement.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

We can't win it from the idiots if we all pack up and leave.

At this point I don't believe the idiots can be convinced that their choice is bad unless it blows up in their face because everyone else left.

I don't know if you've ever met a family where one kid got major drug/mental health issues that landed then in the street? After so many times trying to save them, I've never known a family that didn't decide to just stop and wait on their child to be ready to save themself, otherwise it's the rest of the family that would rip itself apart.

What I'm saying is, your State is full of people with mental health issues and it's spreading and it might be a good idea to move out before they rip you apart. Hell, they're already doing it to migrants, if you think they won't come after "the commies that vote for the Democrats" at some point then you're much more optimistic than I am.

[–] felixthecat@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 3 points 9 months ago

I understand but I disagree. Martin Luther King was starting to try to turn those same idiots before he died. I believe he really could have. There are other charismatic leaders that could today.

The billionaire class knows that as soon as people stop fighting left vs right and instead unite and organize bottom vs top that they're completely outnumbered. Yes convincing the temporarily embarrassed millionaires in the US does seem impossible. But I won't give up hope.

The previous presidential election was closer than ever in Texas. Sure the voting districts are gerrymandered to hell. But if people would just register and vote I believe the democrats could turn this state at both federal and state level regardless of how districts are drawn. Ted Cruz is up for election and I think this time he may also really lose. But if everyone sane just packed up and left then the idiots really do win.

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