The Texas Project

Heard this on the radio.
55% of the registered voters in Texas are Hispanic, Black or Asian, but their turnout is very low, only 26% of the Hispanics in Texas eligible to vote in 2012 voted. If the Hispanics in Texas had the same 62% turnout as the Hispanics in Florida, Texas would be as blue as California. Currently it is the only majority minority state that votes Republican.

Hence a major DNC effort is underway to register and get Hispanic voters to the polls, it's a huge effort, but they were saying by 2020, they could do to Texas what they had done in California, the home state of Reagan and Nixon, now without a single Republican in any statewide office.Add Texas to the Blue column and the presidency is settled by the Democratic Primary, and undo the gerrymander and make it go the other way, and the House is the property of the Democratic Party.
Quite an exciting prospect, don't you think?

 

An "exciting prospect"??

If you think bankruptcy, immorality, dependency, unemployment, and businesses fleeing a hostile environment "exciting"... then yeah, I guess it would be exciting.

There's an old chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times".

 

It's no secret, but I still love it when progressive leftists come right out and admit they're more interested in permanent one party rule by any means necessary than America.

 

The Hispanics that live in Texas aren't like the Hispanics in California. They have chosen Texas over California because they enjoy freedom. If they wanted to live in a place just like Mexico, they'd move to Cali.

 

Why the assumption that they'd all vote blue?

 

They don't all have to vote blue, but the more Hispanics vote the better for the Democrats.
And raising turnout among blacks and asians helps the Democrats too.
Currently Texas Hispanics are the most Republican of Hispanics, about a third vote Republican, and two thirds vote Democratic.
Obama lost Texas by 1.2 million votes, 4 million Texas Hispanics did not vote, by 2020 Texas will add 5 million more Hispanics, the white population will remain almost unchanged. If you get those Hispanics to turnout at the same rate as Florida Hispanics, you put Texas in the Blue Column. There are 18 states that have voted Democratic in the last six presidential elections, that total 242 electoral votes, add Texas's 34 electoral votes and the election is over.
Undo the gerrymandering, and the House is Democratic, and with all those votes, that's 2 more Senators for the good guys.

 

Now you know why Attorney General Dick Holder was illegally preventing Texas from enacting Voter ID. Voter ID stops DemocRAT voter fraud.

 

Actually that is one of the things that may turn the tide.
Voter ID laws aimed at suppressing the Hispanic vote, may energize it, and that could save America....

 

I live in California..I plan on leaving. Very soon. Highest tax rates in the nation, everything around is written in Spanish. I get scowled out for NOT speaking Spanish. Schools going downhill. Some of the highest welfare rates in the nation. One of the most regulated states, and most difficult to grow a business. Yeah, let's spread that around for sure.

 

And do you believe things would be better in Mississippi?

 

Learning Spanish with so many speakers around must be piece of cake so why not hiring a teacher ?

 

If people that have a right to vote, fair and square under our laws, actually vote and change what we see... then so be it. Our country is built on the value that the people have the power to make the change, so we cannot deny them this. That's how it works.

It's certainly interesting to know why anyone would not vote, regardless of how they would vote.

 

It would be awesome.

Turning Texas blue would drive a stake through the heart of the nasty hate mongering Republican Party and relegate them to the Fred Phelpsian fringe where they belong.

 

The flaw in this plan is that, as things are arranged currently, the Republican Party is the home of the people who are attempting to preserve all that you enjoy without--apparently--any cognitive dissonance from you. I've written this without knowing you in the least. I could be wrong.

 

Except in reality, we have adopted the policy of the GOP in the 1980's, and experienced ballooning debt, and tepid growth ever since.

Concentrating wealth among a small group of people didn't work in the 1920's and it's not working now.
But the political coalition that pursues that national suicide pact is falling apart. So the future looks better than the present.

 

Your criticism of the GOP is correct; my statement is true as well. If or when another party is the home of this preservation, then I will be a member of that party.

 

Every super villain (democrats) needs a villain (republicans) to soften their look

Each of you fists "we the people"... the Republicans are kind enough to use a little lube.

 

Third (or fourth, fifth,...) parties are destructive of a two-party system--by definition. Are you a Nihilist?

 

What alternate universe is that in?

Are you living in the 1950's under Eisenhower?

The Republican Party screwed the pooch when they lured the nasty white southern Gorge Wallace Democrats over tho their side with their Southern Strategy. These people now own and control the party and the only thing they are attempting to preserve is fear and loathing.

 

What exactly is the GOP trying to preserve?
Their policy is designed to transfer the wealth of the nation to a few thousand people.
It's great for those people, it just sucks for a couple of hundred million people who get the short end of the stick....

 

I would like to suggest--and since I’m new, I’ll do it humbly--that your question is phrased poorly; and, not for the reason that it ends in ‘in’: If I were to defend my statement--which is forthcoming--, then it will by you who occupies the “alternate Universe”.

First, I must explain, “all that you enjoy”. This phrase describes simply the current moribund state of the American Capitalist economy.

The Democrat Party is the home of those who would kill, if unfettered, and will kill eventually that which we all enjoy currently; and what makes them detestable is that THEY TOO go about enjoying that which they actively destroy. I’m being kind here.

The GOP, as it exists, is headed by loathsome, destructive individuals. There is an element who call the GOP their home but are attempting to preserve the liberties that made and make America what it was and, increasingly less, is today and who fight the detestable GOP leaders. We call ourselves Constitutionalists among other names.

Make no mistake: We know from history--that is, fact--that parties additional to the two-party system are destructive of that system. This is the main reason that we choose the GOP as our party.

When--or if--we correct the GOP, we won’t expect any thanks from you all who sought to defeat us while we did it. We will have tolerated you because we had no choice. If the next “civil” war manifests first, then it would be best if you learn how to duck.

 

Interesting opinion, can you back it with anything at all? How, exactly, are the democrats aiming to destroy the American Capitalist economy? Please, we have enough posters that post nothing but insane hyperbole like "the democrats want to destroy America", can you at least back that asinine statement up with something?

Given the general bizarreness of this statement, I won't hold my breath.

 

Not only do we have to save America for our Family and their children, we have to do it while whole swaths of people who haven’t a clue about how or why America is exceptional and the best hope for the, yes I’ll type it, for the entire Species, and while they go around spitting on the very people who are going to save any and every thing they enjoy and will continue to enjoy.

It’s insane.

Well, it is clear--to me--that one must abide no small amount of cognitive dissonance while perpetuating the credo: I’m referring to Leftists and Progressives. Perhaps it is such, as it has been many years since I moved from liberal-by-default to .....

Well, everyone has to find one’s mind. What I mean is that we--I--had to decide what amount of rationality I wanted or required for my life. I wanted to know how to decide whether I would adopt or reject this or that opinion or judgment and by what method. That does require reading Philosophy and an attraction to critical analysis. I was lucky in that I got involved with a brilliant young woman who had very intelligent and educated parents: the bar was set very high and I did all I could to meet it; additionally, I worked--at that time--around highly intelligent people and read the dictionary to increase my vocabulary out of fear of not knowing words.

With respect to decision-making, we weigh, we judge continuously; but, what weights and measures do we use? And whose scales do we use? Fredrick Nietzsche wrote about the intellectual conscience and it was in his writings that I learned of the Ephectic: a person who suspends judgments, which I tried whenever possible.

The two books that opened my eyes were Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind and Whittaker Chambers’ Witness.

 

Impressive non-answer. Allow me to repeat the question: How, exactly, are the democrats aiming to destroy the American Capitalist economy? The only actual thing you offered which might even be remotely applicable was "they reject american exceptionalism" (which is not true - even the majority of democrats accept American exceptionalism, as does the president).

 

I'll be more direct than you have been, though you stumble over yourself to compliment me while you feign denigration. Before I do that, here is the sentence I had first written in non-response (But be sure to take notes as I’ve just accused you of pretension):

“I have no interest in answering such a question.” (Me, unpublished.)

That was in response to this bit:

You complimented me with a turd-stick too in that post. I confess to not being sure about which statement you deemed “asinine”; which, if I remember, was the reason I abandoned that beginning: I never asserted that “democrats want to destroy America”. Have I lost you?

They may be--I do believe--operating under some diminished capacity for having to abide perpetual cognitive dissonance which, as the words suggest, may grind on the ears as well as the nerves of those with the condition. I’m referring to Leftists and Progressives, to repeat myself; and don’t be distracted by the legal insinuation of the term “diminished capacity” as I’ve employed it here in its general sense.

Your mischaracterization of my statement was asinine, which is humorous in it’s own right. We take such pleasures where and whenever we can, not knowing exactly when our Supermarket lives will be disrupted by some “tragedy” or another, intentional or unplanned, monumental or ....personal. (9-11-2001, World War II or the “War to end all Wars”, catastrophic flood or famine--they being monumental; You can contemplate the personal at your leisure.)

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I was listening to this while I was typing this installment of my brilliant non-responses. It is a dangerous song on a dangerous album; you have been warned sufficiently. (No, not for the lyrics; and yes, I use the term ‘album’; it’s a conceptual thing, which you will, at some time, discover, if you don’t yet know.)

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