Regarding LBGQT et al, I liked Kinky Friedman's comment, that they should be allowed to be as miserable as the rest of us, or something akin to that. As to the migrants, they want the jobs and securities not available in their countries; it's an act of survival. Mexico is the largest provider of migrants to the US. The worker visa was suspended under trump. It's a very successful program which needs expansion and reinstatement. And get those cops and guards off the border. I'm tired of paying for that and the other fiascos the Texan triumvirate profit from. Auto-da-fé anyone?
I cannot fathom Greg Abbott's obsession with punishing immigrants, other than to note it is shared by the vehement MAGA-verse of Texas Republicans. Like Abbott, the actions of Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are also performative, driven by polls and talk-radio shows.
Which is the point. Abbott knows the cheap labor is needed by many of his supporters, but the anti-immigrant and anti-gay proclamations resonate with the "base." Paxton will wave any shiny object to get the discussion of his problems diverted. I doubt that he cares about any of this. I know Dan pretty well, and as Oscar Levant said he knew Doris Day before she was a virgin, I knew him before he was a reactionary demagogue. But reactionary demagogue is the flavor of the month, and he is ambitious above all else. If being liberal were the coming thing in Texas, he'd find a way to "transition."
Regarding LBGQT et al, I liked Kinky Friedman's comment, that they should be allowed to be as miserable as the rest of us, or something akin to that. As to the migrants, they want the jobs and securities not available in their countries; it's an act of survival. Mexico is the largest provider of migrants to the US. The worker visa was suspended under trump. It's a very successful program which needs expansion and reinstatement. And get those cops and guards off the border. I'm tired of paying for that and the other fiascos the Texan triumvirate profit from. Auto-da-fé anyone?
I cannot fathom Greg Abbott's obsession with punishing immigrants, other than to note it is shared by the vehement MAGA-verse of Texas Republicans. Like Abbott, the actions of Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are also performative, driven by polls and talk-radio shows.
The sad news, my friend, is that, in terms of the Texas electorate, their tactics appear to be working.
Which is the point. Abbott knows the cheap labor is needed by many of his supporters, but the anti-immigrant and anti-gay proclamations resonate with the "base." Paxton will wave any shiny object to get the discussion of his problems diverted. I doubt that he cares about any of this. I know Dan pretty well, and as Oscar Levant said he knew Doris Day before she was a virgin, I knew him before he was a reactionary demagogue. But reactionary demagogue is the flavor of the month, and he is ambitious above all else. If being liberal were the coming thing in Texas, he'd find a way to "transition."
These doses of reality are welcome. But still hard to spring out of my fetal.