I haven’t been in suburban Texas very long but I can tell you right now that you can give each and every person here a personal free doctor to attend to their every medical need and they’d still never vote Democrat.
Seriously, Northern progressives, I’m begging you to spend a weekend down here. Unless you run a candidate who wears a Trump t-shirt and says grace at Whattaburger, you’re never ever going to win them over.
It’s just absurdly obvious everywhere you look that they’re not Republicans because Democrats won’t make a new TVA, they’re Republicans because it’s a key aspect of their identity. Being an American, a Christian and a Republican are one in the same.
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The New York Times has a proud history of being wrong, but nothing, and I mean nothing, will ever beat the last paragraph of their endorsement of Abraham Lincoln.
When Biden wrote the crime bill, NYC had nearly 2000 homicides a year. The crime surge of 2020 was the homicide rate going from 300 to 400.
No one accuses Democrats of being soft on crime anymore because crime isn't something voters care about the way they did 30 years ago. Younger progressives are skeptical of the whole notion of law enforcement because violent crime has been relegated to the margins of society.
They chose a life with basically no responsibilities. No family, rent, mortgage, fear of getting fired, no anything. And I get that, life is scary, some people just have to run.
So, why not join a monastery? Hole up and pray all day. “But they want to help their community!” There are a million ways to do that. They chose the priesthood specifically so they could have profound psychological control over their community.