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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I've been living with this level of crazy for about two years. We've been right-wing for 20 years, but not like this, not to this level. With the exception of Lubbock/Amarillo and Midland/Odessa, every major metropolitan area in this state is purple leaning blue. And we are totally hamstrung by the insanity coming out of Austin. And it's going to get worse. We saw the testing in the 2000 election, where city/county governments were trying to get creative to get voting easier during a pandemic. Austin went batshit, and they're specifically writing laws to dilute the power of the cities/counties. That's why the insane bounty law was written, because they knew there was no way in hell our DAs were going to prosecute on the abortion bans.

As for the Big Lie. They either believe it or it's so sacrosanct to their ethos at this point that they can't refute it. Only 13 Republicans were willing to say it was bullshit of the 140plus running in primaries for US Rep. And they heckled the heck out of my be-eypatched representative at the state convention last week because he's one of them. Moderate Rs are not welcome in that party anymore. I'd feel bad for them except they made this bargain, and most of them want the bullshit that happened with SCOTUS this session.

Our only hope is that the overreach is too much. But with gerrymandering and disenfranchising, who knows if the groundswell will be enough to overcome these assholes.

My kid is 10th generation Texan. I love the state. But we will have to leave if it gets too much worse.

Michigan was bluish purple but our districts were R gerrymandered so state house/senate was R and laws were wacky. We had a state referendum to handoff redistricting to an independent commission. I believe we are going to adjustin Nov. WTTW