Lol I did. Early morning, pre-coffee.
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I wouldn’t feel bad. Them thems can be sneaky buggers. 
And only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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And politicians are in turn being obsessively stalked by big donor corporate interests. Thanks, SCOTUS.
Edit: And now that I’ve watched it, I’m afraid I’m not especially impressed by his imitation of Andy Rooney style kvetching. Nor by his bothsiderism. Nor by the level of discourse; it’s like he’s addressing ten year olds.
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… the problem with gerrymandering goes beyond the disenfranchisement of non-white Texans. By creating safely red and blue districts, the process reduces incentives for politicians of both parties to appeal to moderate voters. Instead, candidates are beholden mainly to the small cadre of voters who reliably turn out for primary elections.
Texas is one of just eighteen states that holds so-called open primaries with nonpartisan registration. Voters can participate in either party’s primary—no matter how they voted in the past, and no matter how they intend to vote in the November general election. Voting rights groups have tried for years to encourage more people to participate in these crucial primary contests, but with limited success. In Texas, fewer than one in five registered voters turned out for this year’s primary elections—more than in the past six midterm primaries, but still well below the 67 percent of registered voters who cast ballots in the 2020 presidential election.
Are ignorance and apathy the only explanations for low primary turnout? Perhaps, like a growing number of Americans, voters simply don’t identify with either party.
… about the state’s political future. “I’m always optimistic,” [Seliger] said. “I think we’ll try authoritarianism and demagoguery for a while. And then we’ll move away from it.”
That last part is some gawd awful tasting BS. It’s not a flight of beers.
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bUt iT’Z tEh solID sOUtH… wE’rE all RigHt-wiNgerZ heRe… /s
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Lots of bigots in Gen X and among younger boomers?
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Ok. Why?
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They never matured. Still the same folks that they were back in high school, except mostly with kids now.
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Good question. Why not ask them? Why would they vote for hate and tax cuts? Could be because they only care about themselves, and don’t give two shits if they live in a country that’s full of suffering people as long as they don’t have to pay more taxes…
In some cases… and I’d guess the overwhelming number of those are middle and upper class men, defending their privilege.
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I’m guessing a break down of that would show that that impacted POC at much higher rates than white voters, who tend to break for the GOP in that demographic. So, no. It’s just because they are bigoted, or care so little about bigotry that they’ll vote for an openly fascist party.
We can keep putting our head in the sane on this shit or accept that bigotry exists outside of other factors. I really don’t know why we have to assume external factors are at play when it comes to this stuff. The truth is that some people are bigoted, and it often tends to be the people who benefit most from said bigotry.
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Seriously?
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Yeah, if you’re old enough to remember when college was affordable and meant you got a decently paid white collar job immediately afterward, which often came with pension, health, and other benefits, but now you’re in debt to help pay for your kids’ college costs and worried about retiring with nothing but Social Security, it’s easy to have your latent bigotry stoked by being convinced it’s the fault of all those women and people of color and immigrants taking over.
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And that shift started with Gen X, I’d argue… the earliest of us were still generally benefiting from the expansion of those things that many boomers benefited from. But by the time the latter half of my generation were getting out of HS and going to college, things were started to shift.
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