I’ve detailed the oligarchs buying Texas over the past week, capturing what they gave from 1/1/23 to 12/31/24, but we really need to pull it all together and understand just how bad it is.
Thank you, Chris for all you give us to work with and to think about. I want to just comment on a small part of this post: having to do with messaging to rural and urban voters. Maybe you are right in one way to emphasize reaching out to voters in your back yard, but I see problems there. First, consider gerrymandering. Reaching out to rural constituents is a potential means of reducing the impact of gerrymandering in our elections. But then to partially negate my position that rural voters deserve attention, reevaluate our ideas concerning rural versus urban issues: If urban issues can be characterized as an emphasis on identity policies, well that is an area that the right has successfully used to split off our voters. But all Texans are affected by economics, health care, and ethics. I see a few issues, like availability of health care and small-town economies, as more meaningful to rural voters. But really, all Texans should be concerned with these, and many uptown voters have rural roots. I do think the challenge of reaching voters--urban apathetic and rural hopeless--given our fragmented information spaghetti, is bigly big.
Seems like a huge almost insurmountable task. Yet it has to be done. Dems should put all our efforts to breaking this crazy buy out of our votes!!
Thank you, Chris for all you give us to work with and to think about. I want to just comment on a small part of this post: having to do with messaging to rural and urban voters. Maybe you are right in one way to emphasize reaching out to voters in your back yard, but I see problems there. First, consider gerrymandering. Reaching out to rural constituents is a potential means of reducing the impact of gerrymandering in our elections. But then to partially negate my position that rural voters deserve attention, reevaluate our ideas concerning rural versus urban issues: If urban issues can be characterized as an emphasis on identity policies, well that is an area that the right has successfully used to split off our voters. But all Texans are affected by economics, health care, and ethics. I see a few issues, like availability of health care and small-town economies, as more meaningful to rural voters. But really, all Texans should be concerned with these, and many uptown voters have rural roots. I do think the challenge of reaching voters--urban apathetic and rural hopeless--given our fragmented information spaghetti, is bigly big.
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