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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs a Texan, I have heard for years how we should round up liberals
When they say "Own the libs," believe them. They want slaves. For years the far right in Texas has talked about taking land from liberals the moment they succeed from the union. These crazies have always been there in the background, but now they and their equivalent in other states are not just the hidden crazies that get a nod during elections before being hidden in the back room. They are now the elected officials and the folk that run the Republican Party.
On their graves, they all deserve the stencil, "Came for the racism, stayed for the treason."
House of Roberts
(5,119 posts)would the GOP ever win the presidency again?
I don't think so, and I'm not sure I'd mind so much.
In It to Win It
(8,139 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)We deserve a direct national vote for our President, NOW.
In It to Win It
(8,139 posts)The only way Republicans would agree to that is if they can't win with it.
VGNonly
(7,430 posts)for almost 50 years, don't mind if that continues.
Sorry PurgedVoter.
After my teenage years ended I moved out of Texas and never looked back, unless it was to laugh at those dumbasses and pat myself on the back for leaving.
FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)There are probably just as many (proportionately) in Oklahoma too.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites actually in charge.
Those millions are useful tools for those who will actually be in charge.
One poster called it a 'new social feudalism age'.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)Because they want to exploit and want to get away with abusing them in every way concievable.
Brought this up years ago and told I was paranoid or overhyping the situation.
I have been wary of the right wing since I was a kid. Hated raygun because he was a huge lying asshole.
His wife tipper with that stupid censorship on music, the stupid satanic panic, The tea party pointed at what the republican party really is.
Christian librul hating authoritarian racist nazis
Never Ever trust a republican. They all support this shit. Even when they make moderate sounding noises.
A sane person with empathy and compassion wouldn't stand for being part of that party for very long.
electric_blue68
(14,598 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)How could Al Gore stand being around a fascist pig like her. Has he no self respect? I never understood it.
I cannot stand being
In the same area as a republican or a dino that panders to them let alone marry one of those scumbags .
summer_in_TX
(2,680 posts)He remarried in 2014.
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)His son married in 2014.
summer_in_TX
(2,680 posts)I misread it. He's still listed as married but separated from Tipper Gore.
localroger
(3,602 posts)Nancy was behind "just say no" which led to the greatly expanded insane war on some drugs. Tipper, who was nominally a democrat because wife of Al Gore, made her cause music lyrics which was pretty fucked up for someone whose party is supposed to be in favor of freedom of speech. Unfortunately this gave her extra "cred" and a lot of Republicans who are fascist to the core took up that cause too, fortunately with less concrete results than Nancy's campaign against recreational drugs.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)As has been the entire bullshit "war on drugs".
localroger
(3,602 posts)I was a teenager in the 1970's when it seemed like we were entering a new era where after reaching the Moon we would go on to conquer hunger and poverty and finally relegate racism and sexism to the shameful dustbin of history and enter a new era of sexual and real religious freedom, and then just as I was graduating from high school came Reagan and it all started rolling back.
rampartc
(5,263 posts)but those were great times for me, and i think for freedom. for democracy, for the environment. reagan and his team could not abide that.
Duncan Grant
(8,257 posts)I always feel the need to mention this when Nancy comes up in conversation. I still love him after these many decades
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Martin Eden
(12,801 posts)Texas will be on the south side of the big beautiful wall Mexico will finally pay for.
cayugafalls
(5,629 posts)I refuse to call them Texans as there are MANY great liberal and democratic Texans who embrace and uphold our democracy.
Those others are just the shit on the wall that is stinking up the place.
Crowman2009
(2,475 posts)MLAA
(17,162 posts)Diablo del sol
(424 posts)and were so proud they put it on their flag!
Crowman2009
(2,475 posts)The good ole' boys are gonna wind up like the Russian army when they try that crap in a black neighborhood.
GenThePerservering
(1,688 posts)They don't.
The rest of us just don't need to cosplay commando. Remember, it's always the quiet ones.
patricia92243
(12,590 posts)would he have actually let them do it.
anarch
(6,535 posts)and yes, I'd think a lot of these people definitely would like to return to chattel slavery (as opposed to the prison work farms we have nowadays); the white supremacism runs very strong in many parts of the state--I'd point out that those people are vastly outnumbered, but they are a strong (and annoyingly loud) presence and that is who the current state government administration caters to.
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)If people have a death wish and I mean these right wing nutjobs