Hey, dumbass: the majority of State Governors positions and state assemblies are held by Republicans. This is common knowledge across both ends of the spectrum’s that if you want to change things at the federal level, you have to start at the local level. That’s not just true of Texas: that is a political fact for…

It’s also gerrymandered into conservatism, despite being deep blue.

Well, you fucking Buddha, you, explain to me how to flip Texas. Detail it, since you clearly you know the fucking state better than everyone who lives here.

Well, you fucking Buddha, you, explain to me how to flip Texas. Detail it, since you clearly you know the fucking state better than everyone who lives here.

You talk about this like you have experience in it, and you damned well don’t. There’s a world of difference between criticizing the worldview and politics of a person to calling them neonazis and evil.

And how are you resisting? What are you doing? Are you organizing elections? Are you taking city council seats? Mayorships? Are you running state legislators? Are you organizing PACs to build campaigns for governorships?

It’s easier in the cities than in the rural areas, obviously. Austin won’t be a hard transition, but it can be jarring (there is a large weird scene in Austin). Be prepared for the conservatives in Austin to be more reactionary than they are in other parts of the state (being the capital, it’s going to draw the…

Yup. About the only people that benefit from the way Texas is arranged financially are singles or childless couples. Everything starts to stack up due to the way Texas’ government targets Medicaid, Planned Parenthood, education, everything. Shit, I’m in the National Guard, and WE’RE underfunded: compared to the size…

You jest, but the biggest wave of blue voting blocs is in the Valley. The Hispanic population is what’s slowly, but surely, pushing the voting cadence from right to left.

All you’ve done is talk condescendingly to somebody who’s an actual fucking progressive. Do you want to know why we’re losing at the national and state levels? Because of backstabbing little shits like you. All you can do is look down your nose at people who are doing their fucking best to try and make shit work,…

So, fuck the rest of the progressives trying to swing Texas? You want to fix Texas, you need to give us support down here, instead of pissing on us and bitching about how we aren’t working fast enough to get better people in office.

What you just did was throw out a bunch of buzzwords that mean precisely jack-shit to the vast majority of people who vote, either conservative or liberal.

It’s one of the reasons that big corporations back more progressive policies in Texas: their employees are all in the deep blue areas, and they need to make their employees happy...or else that work force leaves.

It’s total hypocrisy and amazingly shitty. It’s why we need to start hitting them in the state legislature. Forget the governor’s elections: it won’t make a bit of difference until we can start to swing the Texas state senate.

Syria is over the ledge. Ukraine is over the ledge, Venezuela is over the ledge. Until we have a crashed economy, devalued currency, and ideological militias disappearing people, we aren’t over the ledge. So, again: calm the fuck down.

Whenever reactionary policies rear their heads in every other state, the immediate reaction of most progressives is what can be done to curb the damage there, but whenever it happens in Texas, the response is ‘Let’s kick them out.’ You’re okay with cutting off the rest of us trying to make this a good state to live…

Okay, first off: the Democrats look to lose seats in 2018, so your crusade of fighting crazy with crazy is about as successful as fighting fire by dousing yourself in gasoline. If you want people to make the jump to progressive ideals (which I want), you have to encourage them to believe in it, not talk down to them…

Well, it’s done it’s best to make corporations move here. That’s starting to backfire, however: a conglomerate of oil interests (including Exxon and other major companies) have flat out told Abbot (and Patrick...the Lieutenant-Governor has more functional power than the Governor in Texas) that he needs to stop with…

What it comes down to is power: the right-wing (especially in the state) wants the power for their little bailiwick, and any threats to it (from above or below) are met with via hyper-reactive activity. And that’s all it is: what batshit thing can we do to motivate the base and give us power?

Because bitching about how we’re all going to die is going to solve anything? How has that been working for you?