By all means I’m a Black Texas Democrat so I could literally write the book on national D neglect of not only Texas Democrats but Democrats in EVERY “former” Confederacy, current Jim Crow, “red”/purple state. We don’t take our ball and go home, we don’t boo louder than we #VOTE.
No, this is the thing. If a Black woman descendant of Jim Crow survivors who’s well steeped in the community organizing tricks of the trade that have been passed down since slavery to the most reliable Democratic voting bloc in American history isn’t apathetic, why are y’all?
Not only that, but you don’t even have to be Black in the South to understand the 🆘 and call to action b/c @BetoORourke is out here from dusk to dawn trying to save this godforsaken state from the GOP with almost no help from the White voting majority, alt left or the DNC. 🦾🌊
Ask any diehard Beto supporter (like myself) & they’ll tell you the same. The man got NO love from the allegedly progressive left in the ‘20 primary b/c they were STILL too busy calling us “low info” Confederacy voters. We were/are told that “red” state resistance was/is futile.
Matter of fact we’re STILL told that we don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell & no matter how many times I’ve/we’ve told Y’ALL that your pessimism & apathy are the number 1 & 2 reasons White TX voters (specifically) abide GOP inevitability in this state, Y’ALL KEEP DOING IT.
And guess what else? When you keep catalyzing self-fulfilling prophecies of chronic GOP fucktatorships that last for 26 YEARS & counting, you bake in GOP inevitability to the extent that the DNC diverts resources to greener pastures *elsewhere*. Then the VRA gets dismantled… 😒
But then y’all still have the nerve & unmitigated fucking GALL to spew your bullshit pie in the sky idealism with no real coalition, votes, legislation or progress to back it up when you literally owe the slim Senate D majority & TWO STELLAR SENATORS from GA to BLACK WOMEN. Bye.
So what y’all are basically saying is the reason you won’t reliably join hands in solidarity with Black voters to pragmatically elect Democrats & safeguard our democracy & civil/human rights from the Klan/GOP every single election is b/c y’all think WE have Stockholm Syndrome? 🙃
The issue above all else is y’all continue to conflate the perils of vulture capitalism with the perils of racism/sexism and White supremacy as a social construct that subjugates people based on their cultural identity *regardless* of their income level/tax bracket. You PERSIST.
Ponder the reality that when GOP constituencies splinter into factions, whether it be QAnon, the teabaggers or the Freedom Caucus, ultimately they ALL STILL VOTE GOP ON ELECTION DAY, yet the *mostly White*, privileged far left pretends it wants to join the DEM tent then DOESN’T.
Also take note that even though plenty of traditional R voters have been too ashamed to call themselves Rs since GWB, they STILL RELIABLY VOTE GOP. They don’t do dumb ass 3rd party shit that risks their stranglehold on White POWER. The alt left *aids/abets* them by rejecting Ds.
IOW folk are BIG MAD b/c they (and Russia/Trump/the GOP & alt left Berner brigade) want us to do dumb ass shit with our votes (like they do) but we REFUSE b/c fascism ain’t fun & games for US. Go build your Aryan utopia in Moscow, we’ll save the democracy WE BUILT without Y’ALL.
If there’s anything this never-ending conversation illustrates in living color, it’s that *some folk* vote like they’re at Baskin Robbins or Burger King while marginalized folk vote like we’re in the government cheese line; there aren’t 32 flavors and we don’t always get OUR way.
What if instead of vilifying Democrats as feckless & ignoring the unprecedented Constitutional crisis standing in their way, folk who actually didn’t want fascism dared the American electorate to give Ds a veto-proof Congressional majority/all 3 branches of government FOR ONCE?
Ever notice how you never see them advocating for that but you always see them poisoning the well sufficiently enough to suppress D turnout and catalyze absolute GOP power? 🧐 They perpetuate razor thin margins that render Rs unstoppable and Ds unelectable.
Swap out Manchin for Fetterman (or any other ConservaDem you so choose) and the point still stands. We wouldn’t be living & dying by the White whims of ConservaDems or Rs if they didn’t share a constituency that refuses to elect Ds who are either POC or *reliable White allies*.
Trump/DOGE/the GOP are destroying *community resources for education, recreation, employment & healthcare* bc they want MORE social dysfunction & economic chaos. They’re catalyzing a Putinesque oligarchy built on a reinforced American caste system, it ain’t a mystery or surprise.
I don’t wanna hear shit else about “Ds not meeting the moment.” Literally the only reason America even has/had all the public services Rs are gleefully destroying is Ds. Y’all insisted on letting perfect be the enemy of good & look at us now, contending with evil every damn day.
Also just b/c you didn’t join the fight until some Bros occupied Wall Street in 2011 doesn’t mean the Black base of the Democratic Party hasn’t been fighting the battle for civil rights AND socioeconomic justice in America since 1619. You didn’t help but now you want moments met.
A lot of folk seem to think that repeating “I support Trump/DOGE/the GOP’s funding cuts b/c there’s too much fraud, waste & abuse in government” makes them sound reasonable and fiscally responsible when really all they’re doing is parroting Southern Strategy dog whistles. 🙃
For context, watch this👇🏾clip. It’s the most commonly executed mental gymnastics routine in these interviews of FAFO MAGAts who still don’t wanna admit they’ve been brainwashed by the GOP (and Fox) into supporting the dismantling of their entire government-dependent livelihood.🤸
Not only is there a shit ton of fraud/waste/abuse in the private sector that they hypocritically pretend is infallible & superior to the public services they divest from (b/c they think it hurts ‘those’ people), *they* end up reliant on those same underfunded public resources.
“New polls show a majority of Americans say he has overstepped his presidential authority — and hasn’t done enough to address high prices.” | via @politico #InstabilityInChief #BuyersRemorse #GOPOverreach politico.com/news/2025/02/2…
Much of the reason White “moderates” are so shellshocked about having no quick reprieve from Project 2025 is they’ve historically been able to evade the worst of GOP policy by “swing” voting for divided govt that allows Ds to rescue them from the R trifectas they keep unleashing.
IOW, they create economic chaos by voting GOP in presidential years (to assert their Whiteness) then crawling back to Ds with their tails between their legs at the midterms b/c they desperately need a bailout from GOP austerity/overreach and want their SS, Medicaid & Medicare. 🙃
If anything good comes from this unmitigated disaster & international fucking embarrassment (part II) I hope it’s that folk who never bothered to understand how American government works or why they should give a damn about the social safety net finally learn it from losing it.
Every time I see an MSM clip of them sorrowfully (but unconvincingly) reporting these #TrumpLayoffs & agency closures/takeovers I roll my eyes damn near out of my head b/c WTF members of the press?! Stop pretending there was “no” way to predict this when Y’ALL fanned the flames.
Then there’s the FAFO folk who actually ordered the code red on their own selves b/c they’ve been terminally brainwashed by 60+ yrs of the GOP Southern Strategy to reflexively hate the federal government (even though they need it) b/c of its interventions re: slavery & Jim Crow.
I’m gonna preface this by saying it’s mostly anecdotal but the patients I’m seeing virtually in TX (mostly White, rural/suburban) have been so medically unwell for the last month, primarily upper respiratory and gastrointestinal. Lots of flu, a smattering of COVID and colitis…
At first I was like well yeah it’s winter and cold/flu season plus vaccine refusal is off the charts, so folk aren’t keeping up with COVID boosters or annual flu shots etc., but now that it’s coupled with #InstabilityInChief shuttering public health services & communication... 🥴
And then it got even weirder this week when a patient told me school districts near him were closing in droves and said 650! students were out sick. I googled as soon as the session ended and look: nbcdfw.com/news/local/sch…