Thread by @elfsternberg

It's impossible to parody this. It's impossible to overstate just how insane this document is. The 2020 Texas GOP Platform:
drive.google.com/file/d/1HFTbz1…

Let's start with their first principle: "We believe in the laws of nature and nature's God." But when science points out there's no such thing as a gender binary, they stick their fingers in their ears.

The Texas GOP is anti-Judaism. Their second principle is that life begins at conception. Judaism teaches quite the opposite: life begins when a child draws their first breath, and not before.

"We support free market solutions for utilities, but the electrical grid should be hardened against nuclear war, geomagnetic solar storms, and cyberattacks." But not, like, a cold snap?

More:
• Pornography is a "public health crisis."
• Carbon Dioxide in any amount is not a danger
• Prohibit all sex education or sex health
• Abolish the Department of Education
• Abolish Child Protective Services
• Ban all pandemic-related public health measures

• Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency
• Repeal the Endangered Species Act
• Limit the time disabled people can get Social Security
• Allow people to "opt out" of Social Security
• Abolish school mental health therapists
• Ban same-sex marriage
• Ban abortion

• Require a criminal complaint before permitting divorce
• Add "using cryptocurrency" to the state's bill of rights
• Add "refuse all vaccination" to the state's bill of rights
• Stop flouridating, Mandrake!
• Ban drag queens from interacting with minors
• Ban refugees

• End daylight savings time
• Oppose the Convention on the Rights of Children
• Oppose recognition of trans people in any way
• Oppose recognition of intersex conditions
• Empower the prosecution of librarians who put "age inappropriate materials" where kids can reach them.

• Ban municipalities from lowering its policing budgets.

And "We support foreign aid only to countries that support our values (except we also support Israel, despite our belief that their taxpayer-funded abortion clinics are Satan's work)."

• Withdraw from the UN.
• Rejection of any recommendation from the UN on how to sustain a human-friendly climate.
• The Texas Myth of the Alamo shall not be re-examined.
• No single-gender bathrooms
• Overturn Lawrence v. Texas