Fascism wins through the ballot box.
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This is on the Republican primary ballot.
Unmitigated psychos to gauge their base? Yes. Cause for alarm? Depends on the results.
Thank you - it's still batshit but less surprising.
Keep in mind that this is an opinion poll of Republican voters and not a policy referendum. You are not voting to make a law but merely saying YES you agree or NO you do not agree with the statement. https://texasgop.org/republican-primary-ballot-propositions/
:sankara-salute: thank you comrades for telling me this before I send it to my friends without doing any research
Oh yeah should’ve mentioned this is still in the primary season. It’s just that there are so few democrats that the Republican primary is basically the only one.
And people think america won't balkanize in some form. Texas will be a theocratic state in my lifetime assuming I don't die in the next 3-5 years lol
This is on the Republican primary ballot and is largely to oil up their base into voting so they can sweep the House and Senate (state and federal). This is red meat for the hogs. The propositions themselves only mean something insofar as Texan politicians getting elected to take oil money and get book deals.
Texas very well could become a weird de jure fascist theocracy like you said, but it would be an aesthetic front to a de facto corporate kleptocracy that has no real interest in separating from the federal government. There's not enough money to keep an independent Texas afloat for a few months, but maybe Abott or Head State Priest Joel Osteen would attempt to keep it going anyway. I just don't see the proper level of interest in it.
My real belief is Texan politicians are attempting to become the anti-California, pushing the most fascist nonsense possible to attract middle class and petite bourgeois reactionary dipshits into moving in, building up housing in the DFW suburbs, and then promising them low or no property taxes. I look at this and see a kind of really stupid real estate investment ad, which is one of the only industries in Texas that's actually growing. Look at how the school choice stuff and racism and transphobia is right there alongside a proposition to eliminate property taxes while also maintaining no state income tax.
Texas very well could become a weird de jure fascist theocracy like you said, but it would be an aesthetic front to a de facto corporate kleptocracy that has no real interest in separating from the federal government.
Yeah, american balkanization is probably gonna be just that, a weaker and more incompetent federal government that starts to exist more as a figurehead status to try and project american hegemony on the world thats already starting to leave them behind.
Texan politicians are attempting to become the anti-California, pushing the most fascist nonsense possible to attract middle class and petite bourgeois reactionary dipshits into moving in, building up housing in the DFW suburbs, and then promising them low or no property taxes. I look at this and see a kind of really stupid real estate investment ad
A related possibility is that they are reacting to demographic change and the slipping status of Texas as a GOP bastion.
In addition to gerrymandering, just attract the voters you want. American federalism in action.
A shining ray of hope is that climate change will render half of it untenable living space in a collapse scenario and the disparity between mayo and Hispanic populations would make a supremacist push hard to accept and likely lead to multi group conflict.
Honestly I'm just praying China occupies the west coast and sets up a demilitarized economic zone of some type
You see, in 2305 they dammed the ocean to reveal the Floridian holy land.
Texas should eliminate all property taxes within ten (10) years without implementing a state income tax.
AnCapistan lol
Texans affirm that our freedoms come from God and that the government should have no control over the conscience of individuals.
What does this even mean? I'm sure it's a dog whistle for something nasty, but for what?
what happens if it's a NO? like does Texas simply implode or sink into the gulf? or do they crank out a yeeeeeehaaaaaa'd to reclaim Texas?
I live in Texas and it's a dog-whistle for ending any sort of formal legal rights for protected classes. Protected classes like race, age, ethnicity, national origin, LGBTQ folk, etc. The proposition is saying there shouldn't be any protections because that's government intervention into basic morality, with the assumption that basic morality is a individual's strong Christian faith rather than any formal, legislative aspect of society.
The reality of it is just bigotry and stripping away even the bare minimums of protections against white supremacist, heteronormative hegemony. That proposition would make it easier to do things like kick trans people out of shelters or schools, fire people on the basis of race, or even something like reintroducing segregation. It's hiding behind Christianity to both be incredibly craven racists and also to strip away the public coffers. 2 for the price of 1 for conservatives.
Texans affirm that our freedoms come from
GodJesus and that the government should have no control over the conscience ofindividualsChristians.That’s what it means
Christian reactionaries in the US want nothing more than to legislate their own morality, but saying that outright isn’t popular enough yet, so they vouch everything in terms of freedom. Want to ban abortion? No, I just want the freedom to not fund it. Want to ban homosexuality? No, I just want the freedom to exist in pubic spaces without seeing it. Want to ban teaching kids evolution? No, I just want the freedom to choose a school that doesn’t expose my kids to it.
I know "le epic hypocrisy owns" are pointless but you'd think people would feel some dissonance with the whole "we must use the government to ban this and that, and also everyone is free to do whatever they want without government interference".
I'd want it to set off at least one alarm bell in some of these chuds.
i think chuds have abandoned their ethos of small government a while ago. The libertarian moment has passed. Sometimes it comes back for some things, like with lock-downs and quarantines, but it's less coherent now
There's no alarm bell because they know what they're talking about when they're talking about freedom and liberty, they're talking about it for themselves.
genital mutilation surgery (for sex transition purposes)
Gotta still be able to circumcise em though lmao
That has to be the reason for the loophole. God forbid we disappoint the ghost of John Kellog.
Freedom of religion and conscience, but you have to sign a loyalty oath to Israel to open a coffee shop
Here's a text version so you don't strain your ojos.
- In light of the federal government’s refusal to defend the southern border, Texas should immediately deploy the National Guard, Texas Military Forces, and necessary state law enforcement to seal the border, enforce immigration laws, and deport illegal aliens.
- Texas should eliminate all property taxes within ten (10) years without implementing a state income tax.
- Texans should not lose their jobs, nor should students be penalized, for declining a COVID-19 vaccine.
- Texas schools should teach students basic knowledge and American exceptionalism and reject Critical Race Theory and other curricula that promote Marxist doctrine and encourage division based on creed, race, or economic status.
- Texas should enact a State Constitutional Amendment to defend the sanctity of innocent human life, created in the image of God, from fertilization until natural death.
- The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature should end the practice of awarding committee chairmanships to Democrats.
- Texas should protect the integrity of our elections by verifying that registered voters are American citizens, restoring felony penalties and enacting civil penalties for vote fraud, and fighting any federal takeover of state elections.
- Texas should ban chemical castration, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital mutilation surgery on all minor children for sex transition purposes.
- Texas parents and guardians should have the right to select schools, whether public or private, for their children, and the funding should follow the student.
- Texans affirm that our freedoms come from God and that the government should have no control over the conscience of individuals.
Must've been painful having to physically type all that out :rat-salute:
honestly its weird to me how many of this are reactionary anglo-american views but they are also in spanish for the latinos to understand
not to say reationary latinos dont exist
oh, they most definitely exist.
i've seen a couple of conservative (and fash) chicano twitter accounts.
sometimes i kinda want those dudes sacrificed to Tlaloc
there are both reactionary latinos and Texas is forced to write ballots in Spanish because of section 203 of the federal voting rights act from 1975
they only put Spanish because they're legally required
also before that act was passed a lot of states would use rigged or purposefully confusing literacy tests to dissuade black and latino people from voting
Somebody should tell the hogs Stalin coined the phrase American Exceptionalism.
Defend the sanctity of innocent human life with deportation, allowing a pandemic to continue to spread like wildfire, making education worse, not banning the genital mutilation of cis children, and tormenting trans children.
Ahem, that's Freedom™ love it or leave commie :texas-cool:
The true agenda shines through these words:
Prop 2: Makes it clear that rich assholes wanna pay less.
Prop 4: No discrimination based on "economic status". That's the main part.
Prop 8: It's the "puberty blockers".
Prop 9: Public funds for private schools -> poor people subsidize the rich.
that's about committee chairmanship, not elections. Most states and the federal government have a kind of wishy-washy gentleman's agreement to put both parties on committees, usually with the majority party having the leading chairman position and the opposition party having minority status. Texas has some committees where Democrats have chairman positions, despite being the opposition party.
The only one I know is the Texan House committee for pensions because I had to interact with it indirectly recently. The Texan House is 85 Republican to 65 Democrat, but the chairman of the Committee on Pensions is Rafael Anchía, a Democrat representing western Dallas.
I don't know exactly why it's like that or if other states do it. This proposition would make it so only Republicans have chairman positions in a Republican held legislature.
If they eliminate property taxes with no income tax for the state, does the Texan state government just cease to exist? Sounds like nobody's around to enforce property laws.
The prices for everything will go up. Theyll ramp up collecting on fines and ticket more aggressively. It'll become a police state.
Texas also has a 6.25% sales tax and a corporate income tax, but who knows how well those would fund the state government without the property tax. It would probably just hand more control over to oil and gas lobbyists.
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