The putrid heart of Texas Republicanism: "the weak will perish"

[My Pet Orangutan]

Tim Boyd, Mayor of Colorado Springs, TX, resigned after posting this on Facebook. Why? Because he posted the unvarnished truth about the "Christian" Texas GOP. 'Only the strong'.

Link to tweet

It's an old story. It's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicansthe Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail. The strong, the strong they tell us will inherit the land! We Democrats believe in something else. We Democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family in tact. And we have more than once, ever since Franklin Roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees. Wagon train after wagon train, to new frontiers of education, housing, peace; the whole family aboard; constantly reaching out to extend and enlarge that family; lifting them up into the wagon on the way; Blacks and Hispanics and people of every ethnic group, and Native Americans-all those struggling to build their families and claim some small share of America. For nearly 50 years we carried them all to new levels of comfort and security and dignity, even affluence; and remember this, some of us in this room today are here only because this nation had that kind of confidence.

1984 DNC Keynote Address, Mario Cuomo.
http://www.speeches-usa.com/Transcripts/mario_cuomo-1984DNC2.html

[underpants]

1. He misspelled "perish". Parish.

[demigoddess]

6. misspelled 'you're' also. wrote your. did he finish high school?

[Midnight Writer]

2. "the power providers you have been paying thousands of dollars to every year owe you nothing!"

Fucker is nuts.

[msongs]

3. sounds positively biblical - if yer not one of us yer going to hell nt

[My Pet Orangutan]

4. Sure does: "Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire

prepared for the devil and his angels.

For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’

Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ "

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A31-46&version=ESV

[gratuitous]

5. Boyd speaks as if he thinks he will never be one of the weak

Or unfortunate. Or in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or the victim of any adverse circumstance. Because he's strong. A winner. Is now and always will be. And if you support him, you will be, too.

Until the moment he and you aren't as invincible as you thought you were. Then everyone needs to drop everything and cater to his pitiable condition.