going to have to change. Young people and many Latinos are going to have to break themselves of their non-voting habit. Turning Texas blue is a long-haul project and the Google guys WILL lose some fights along the way. Team Donkey has to get more organized and much better at turning out the troops for early voting and Election Day.
Immigration and integration are important issues, but we also need to talk more about breakfast table issues. The Repuds have not only been tearing up our social safety net, but yanking out the steps on the ladders people used to better their lives. The Radical Rights jihad against abortion threatens maternal and infant care across huge swaths of rural Texas. Our electric grid isnt up to the strain of changing winters and blazing summers.
We also need to bust up the myths about Private Enterprise. So-called free market solutions have been touted as a snake-oil cure for all problems, and right-wing politicians and right-wing ivory tower ideologues ignore the fact that not only are there some areas investors arent interested inlike healthcare for all and repairing decaying infrastructurebut their owners first obligation is to their lenders and shareholders, not the common good.