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Texas' governor is spending millions & using anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to defund public education (www.lgbtqnation.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Texas' governor is spending millions & using anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to defund public education

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, good. Keep banging that drum. Surely, this hasn't been proven over and over again to be a loser issue at the polls...

But seriously, this is how they intend to solidify their hold: run off the good teachers (including the allies) to reduce the quality of education, so the voting base that's left is uneducated, feed them propaganda they no longer have the intellectual tools to question, profit.

Don't check out in November. There's a lot of seats up for grabs, and we can't let these people have a majority. Fuck theocrats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's a good way to get liberals to leave the state. One thing the right does 10x better than the left is long-term strategy. Liberal states may legalize marijuana or add sex education as required teaching but most are one loss away from rolling back everything. Reform of government is usually bottom of their list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think that's because the "left" states are really just politically center. There's some that are doing more progressive things like Michigan, but since the GOP is now infected with extreme right goobers, the policies they push are also extreme right, which in turn pushes out anyone center or left of center.

The left analog would be progressive policies that push out the bigots (like Civil Rights and desegregation for trans people), but we don't have any examples of that these days, since that's not where any of the democratic state governments are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Texas should split into multiple states. There’s at least two blue states out of five in that mass of land.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Gerrymandering state boundaries won't fix anything either. The far right will beat them at that game too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If Trump wins then that's it, for the world, really. The US will convert to a theocratic dictatorship, ruled by religious doomsday nuts with nukes. Trump is, as usual, the puppet of Putin, so do expect the US not only to withdraw from Europe, I fully expect him to actively help Russia to conquer more parts of Europe than the USSR ever had.

Am I overthinking and overstating things? Most of it is based off Trump's words and actions, the Republican 2025 documents, and well... Maybe a lot of pure cynicism as well, as I've seen humanities behaviorfall of a cliff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Which is exactly why it's so important that we ensure Democrats win a majority in both chambers of Congress (if we presume Trump will win, which I don't). It won't stop Trump from doing damage, but it will slow him down and prevent at least some of it.

There's lots at stake, and lots of downballot races deserve our attention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

What an embarrassment