“Beyond politics, we cannot set aside respect for people’s lives and dignity,” Gov. Maru Campos, Chihuahua, Mexico The U.S. is undergoing another great moral crisis much like the Civil Rights movement, and it is unfolding on the Texas border. A daily tragedy has transcended the law and has become about human rights, not just protecting the country from illegal immigration. Anyone paying even cursory attention to the controversy over razor wire and floating buoys, and children reportedly pushed back into the river, knows that people are dying in their attempt to overcome barriers and heat. They are hungry, desperate, thirsty, and hoping to change their lives by coming to America.
Texas voters ARE the dust bin. They propelled Geo. W Bush from gov to president and followed him with the incompetent Rick Perry, who is our LONGEST serving governor, who tried to remold state colleges with equally incompetent business chums by appointing board of regents to try to mold schools in their image. Abbott was the elected and re-elected twice carrying on the horrible appointments, ramping up the social wars, even trying to make it harder for solar and wind installations harder to get approval this year when the states population has exploded and ANY additional power source should be welcome. So don’t think Texas voters will save the day. And Abbott is just the top of the list of scoundrels, look at our Lt Gov or our illustrious AG. As a native Texas, as some brag, I’m sick of this state and it’s voters and non voters!
Don't disagree with a word you've written, Mike. Writing politics in this state since 1975 and I am confounded beyond anything to understand Texas voters. They are to blame.
From Nancy Thompson, founder of Mothers Against Greg Abbott, in an email yesterday:
"So I want to send a clear message that Abbott seems to have forgotten: These are people, you asshole."
The beyond sad part is that Abbott, DeSantis, Trump, et al, don't care. Just as Alabama is ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to redraw its voting district maps, if SCOTUS rules against Abbott's Wall of Barrels he will simply ignore the ruling. The party of law and order my ass!
James, another marvelous essay and a call for moral clarity about what is happening on the border. Thank you! Unfortunately, all the political incentives — which are the only thing Abbott cares about — militate in fave of, not only a cruel and inhumane "border security" policy, but defiance of the federal government's attempts to mitigate it. He has become Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door.
"....perhaps voters will send (Abbott) into history's dustbin." Are you suggesting democrats (as well as republicans who refuse to accept our idiot governor) get off their asses and vote? Really? I fear such an extremist suggestion will, once again, find insufficient traction among our calcified electorate.
Texas voters ARE the dust bin. They propelled Geo. W Bush from gov to president and followed him with the incompetent Rick Perry, who is our LONGEST serving governor, who tried to remold state colleges with equally incompetent business chums by appointing board of regents to try to mold schools in their image. Abbott was the elected and re-elected twice carrying on the horrible appointments, ramping up the social wars, even trying to make it harder for solar and wind installations harder to get approval this year when the states population has exploded and ANY additional power source should be welcome. So don’t think Texas voters will save the day. And Abbott is just the top of the list of scoundrels, look at our Lt Gov or our illustrious AG. As a native Texas, as some brag, I’m sick of this state and it’s voters and non voters!
Don't disagree with a word you've written, Mike. Writing politics in this state since 1975 and I am confounded beyond anything to understand Texas voters. They are to blame.
From Nancy Thompson, founder of Mothers Against Greg Abbott, in an email yesterday:
"So I want to send a clear message that Abbott seems to have forgotten: These are people, you asshole."
The beyond sad part is that Abbott, DeSantis, Trump, et al, don't care. Just as Alabama is ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to redraw its voting district maps, if SCOTUS rules against Abbott's Wall of Barrels he will simply ignore the ruling. The party of law and order my ass!
He doesn't see people. He sees an issue that will help him raise money and expand his radical base and feed his frail dream of being president.
James, another marvelous essay and a call for moral clarity about what is happening on the border. Thank you! Unfortunately, all the political incentives — which are the only thing Abbott cares about — militate in fave of, not only a cruel and inhumane "border security" policy, but defiance of the federal government's attempts to mitigate it. He has become Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door.
Yeah, Wallace was easier to overcome than razor wire and buoys, though.
"....perhaps voters will send (Abbott) into history's dustbin." Are you suggesting democrats (as well as republicans who refuse to accept our idiot governor) get off their asses and vote? Really? I fear such an extremist suggestion will, once again, find insufficient traction among our calcified electorate.
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. It is in us."
So...if history is true, Caesar's reign must end.