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Moostache

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17. We on the left need to realize that MASSIVE pushback over DECADES would be required...
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:35 PM
Jul 16

The religious right ran around for 40 years threatening Roe and campaigning and donating and consolidating power, recruiting money and power and getting things like $$$ = speech, women = chattle and immigrants = aliens into the venacular.

To SLOW that march now would take 80 years of the same level of pushback...first to slow the march, then to stop it and finally to reverse it back to where we were in 1973!

That would be nearing the end of the lifespan of my children and probably my grandchildren (should I be lucky enough to have any)...

We tremble and quake whenever the goddamn 2nd amendment gets wavied around yet we cower and hide when the 1st amendement is bastardized and attacked relentlessly?

We have accepted a stacked Supreme Court - illegally packed with ideologues and liars.
We have passively accepted gerrymandering that makes every Republican vote have the same heft as 2 to 2.5 Democratic votes.
We have watched our mothers, daughters, sisters and nieces be stripped of autonomy and agency for their own bodies.

In short, we are now facing the fruits of 45 years of relentless attacks that have become the very definition of the immovable object. I do not believe this can be reversed for exactly that reason - the time it would take to do so in no longer measured in timescales that people can abide. A human lifetime is at best an average of 80 years. It will take more than that to get back to baseline now. That does not inspire people to action. But the horrors of the overreach in the current GOP hatred IS enough to motivate, painful enough to move people into action.

The status quo cannot hold for long. The GOP wishes to make it WORSE, which can only accelerate the inevitable - a partitioning of the union and a split of the nation. It is coming. It NEVER was fully healed after 1865. The original sin of this nation is still rending it in two as we approach the 250 year mark that will become the marker of the end of the First Republic, the partitioning of the continent and the dawn of the Second Republic.

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Isn't Texas... Gruenemann Jul 15 #1
extremely moonshinegnomie Jul 15 #9
District 5 is in the Dallas area, not Houston or Austin RussBLib Jul 16 #15
We either need to stop promoting this red-blue concept or face reality... Moostache Jul 15 #2
The problem with that thinking is there are many Democrats of lesser means who can't, or don't want to move for a .. electric_blue68 Jul 15 #4
That's why I always said to accomplish this we'd have to offer slightlv Jul 15 #7
Idk, it'd be great if they could be somewhere else, but that's not happenjng... electric_blue68 Jul 15 #14
We on the left need to realize that MASSIVE pushback over DECADES would be required... Moostache Jul 16 #17
Moos.. we think along the same lines, with the same passion... slightlv Jul 17 #19
A return to the concept of Greek city-states mnay be necessary. Moostache Jul 16 #18
The problem with leeches Metaphorical Jul 15 #5
"Trump on Tuesday said he would like to see five new GOP seats in Texas." sop Jul 15 #3
Can two "play at that game"? FBaggins Jul 15 #6
They do have this BumRushDaShow Jul 15 #8
Population growth of 108k in a state of almost 40 million is actually shrinking relative to the rest of the country FBaggins Jul 15 #10
That figure was over a single year. It was 250,000+ total over a couple years (including revisions). BumRushDaShow Jul 15 #11
The 3.3 million nationally was also for a single year FBaggins Jul 15 #12
An example of redrawing and backlash/back-firing BumRushDaShow Jul 16 #16
AND.... I just spotted this article today (with CA's options) - BumRushDaShow Friday #20
It's a regular pattern: Illegal, Immoral and Unconstitutional. rickyhall Jul 15 #13
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