Texas

Shell_Seas

(3,474 posts) Tue Dec 12, 2023, 03:56 PM Dec 2023

A New Dawn For Democrats In Texas?

Texas Democrats are charging head-first into a red sea of chaos. Is this a signal of the coming end of GOP dominance?

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/a-new-dawn-for-democrats-in-texas

The message that I’ve been hearing from Democrats, Liberals, and Leftists all around the Lone Star State for the last year has been, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”

During this year’s legislative session and the multiple special sessions that followed, we saw something fundamentally changed within the public political engagement in Austin. Every single culture war issue Republicans pushed in the legislature had substantial public opposition and very little support. Yet, they pushed these bad bills anyway, despite them being unpopular. Everyone noticed.

There isn’t a marginalized group that the majority party hasn’t targeted within the last two sessions. Women, poor, Asian, immigrant, Black, young, and old have all been subjects of oppressive measures by the Republican Party. The people are fed up, and they are pushing back.

Democrats have never had more candidates on the state ballot.

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A New Dawn For Democrats In Texas? (Original Post) Shell_Seas Dec 2023 OP

The GQPs in Texas are heartless and power hungry............................. Lovie777 Dec 2023 #1

Turnout, turnout, turnout. TwilightZone Dec 2023 #2

Good. But I've been waiting for Texas to turn blue for decades CanonRay Dec 2023 #3

The day we rid ourselves of these vermin in Texas there will be a huge celebration walkingman Dec 2023 #4

It depends on how well organized and efficient they are. ananda Dec 2023 #5

Lovie777

(15,238 posts)

1. The GQPs in Texas are heartless and power hungry.............................

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Dec 12, 2023, 04:00 PM

Dec 2023

TwilightZone

(28,834 posts)

2. Turnout, turnout, turnout.

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Dec 12, 2023, 05:35 PM

Dec 2023

The demographics are getting closer. Pew has it nearly split between D and R though there's a significant independent group.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/state/texas/party-affiliation/

But we have to find a way to fix the turnout problem, particularly among Latinos, who are now the largest ethnic group in Texas, though they're also relatively quite young, on average.

They could be a very formidable political force if we could get participation up. That is, of course, why the GOP does everything they can to keep them from voting.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/15/1193747771/latino-political-power-texas

CanonRay

(14,930 posts)

3. Good. But I've been waiting for Texas to turn blue for decades

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Dec 12, 2023, 05:45 PM

Dec 2023

Maybe a white supremacist fascist government is a turning point?

walkingman

(8,552 posts)

4. The day we rid ourselves of these vermin in Texas there will be a huge celebration

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Tue Dec 12, 2023, 07:33 PM

Dec 2023

and collective effort to bring this state back to decency and respect. All it will take is for the people of Texas to show up and show these assbackwards people the door.

It honestly feels like we are living in the "Upside Down".

ananda

(30,942 posts)

5. It depends on how well organized and efficient they are.

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Sun Dec 17, 2023, 10:10 AM

Dec 2023

It hasn't been very good for the last few cycles,
but who knows... maybe people are more energized now!

Here's hoping!

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