So texas republicans went all "homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle", pretty much figuratively threw the rest of the alphabet folk under a bus (which I would think they wish was more literal than figurative) and outright made it part of their platform that biden's presidency is not legitimate. Being a democrat in texas nowadays must be scary.
I've lived in Texas for a good portion of my life, and I have to say it's becoming a dystopian society. I wouldn't call it scary to be a Democrat here. You can hide your politics; You can't hide your race, or in many cases orientation and gender identity (OK you could hide those, but you'd probably be unhappy?)
TX is politically... interesting. The hispanic population are definitely blue for the most part, but
very socially conservative. Austin, the capital, is incredibly liberal. The suburbs are pretty mixed. I'd say where I am is probably 50/50 politically, but a good portion of the left side can't vote (not citizens), so we have pretty conservative county and city politics. If you step another twenty minutes out you start seeing Confederate Flags, and Trump 2020 signs. If you head out to Llano, TX (great bbq) you will find a whole corner store dedicated to Trump Memorabilia.
I'd honestly say as late as 2014 or so that the politics here weren't nearly as crazy. Wendy Davis filibustering for 13 hours or whatever was huge news. I think that once Trump took office, though, we started seeing that alt part of the alt right come out of people who we thought were right-center. Hell, in Austin we occasionally find Nazi's protesting... something.. over near the Synagogue.
Uvalde is honestly the final straw for me. My wife and I are either moving to Canada, or Japan. I'm so over the political climate here. There is nowhere else where random ass 18 year olds go shoot up schools. It just doesn't happen. Just in the USA. Every time it happens the gun lobby immediately jumps to the defense and suggesting we arm teachers. Teachers in Austin don't even make enough to live in Austin, and asking them to purchase, and carry guns to class? The fucking lunacy. Distributing guns to a bunch of untrained users who probably don't want to be carrying them. Not only that. Imagine the scenario where a gun is left in a purse or bag, and the teacher runs to the restroom. It isn't something that might happen. It WOULD happen.
Police in this country want to be worshiped, but they also want to provide zero value to society. They want their knob polished by everyone, acting like they are constantly risking their life for you
despite the fact that you're more likely to die on the job as a "Grounds maintenance worker" in a public park. Imagine if firefighters got to the building that was engulfed in flames, and decided they needed to wait for the flames to naturally work themselves out before going in to rescue anyone.. that's the equivalent of what the Uvalde PD did. Then we have the "chief" of that incident now as a city council member. I don't know how the hell we find such fucking idiots to do these jobs but we manage to.
