There’s a simple, patriotic, and democratic solution to this fucking mess:
https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/proportional-representation/
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2025
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What they are doing now, even though I get the point, will further damage our democracy. We really sat on our hands for like 100 years thinking gentleman's decorum was enough to keep psychopathic fascists at bay.
While true, I think it’s rather clear that a simple, patriotic and democratic solution isn’t what states like Texas are looking for.
Don’t think they ever have been
Never forget that Texas was brought on into the US in the push for getting more slave states so that they could gain control over the federal government.
Rotten roots.
Seems to me that they’ve dusted off their ol’ slave playbook, wrapped it in an American flag and sold it to these uninformed or willfully ignorant folks who are willing walking themselves to the slaughters ramp as they laugh as the brown cows in first completely oblivious to that they are next in line… it’s hard (at least for myself) to justify any sort of empathy (they hate it anyways) for them or the plights. I realize I’m becoming so desensitized to everything where it’s beginng to take its toll on trying to inform these people who are so willfully ignorant. I hope if we do make it out of this that we don’t make the same mistake that Sherman and our government did by letting these fascists, traitorous assholes escape justice and if not by government than the people. If ICE want to play “brown shirts / black shirts“ they can find out history ended for most them since they’re so much against education /end rant
Seems to me that they’ve dusted off their ol’ slave playbook, wrapped it in an American flag and sold it to these uninformed or willfully ignorant folks
On this front, it's the meme with the astronaut with the gun to the other one saying "Always has been." The only time they haven't had it wrapped in the American flag was when they actively broke off.
I'll say on the educating people... I'm done with it now. I live in a red state, and I'm going now by the philosophy I wouldn't talk to people John Brown would have killed.