Where the US is headed...

[kadee79]

This ties in with the Tx. thread, but also expands on it a bit...but if they need to be combined, fine.
It's not "JUST" Tx. that is passing these laws.  We, the majority, need to get more vocal and MUCH louder to drown out those trying to take us back 100 yrs.!

Texas this week showed us what a post-democracy America would look like.

Thanks to a series of actions by the Texas legislature and governor, we now see exactly what the Trumpified Republican Party wants: to take us to an America where women cannot get abortions, even in cases of rape and incest; an America where almost everybody can openly carry a gun in public, without license, without permit, without safety training and without fingerprinting; and an America where law-abiding Black and Latino citizens are disproportionately denied the right to vote.

This is where Texas and other red states are going, or have already gone. It is where the rest of America will go, unless those targeted by these new laws — women, people of color and all small “d” democrats — rise up.

On Wednesday, a Texas law went into effect that bans abortions later than six weeks, after the Supreme Court let pass a request to block the statute. Because 85 to 90 percent of women get abortions after six weeks, it amounts to a near-total ban. Already on the books in Texas is a “trigger” law that automatically bans all abortions, even in cases of rape and incest, if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. At least 10 other states have done likewise.

Also Wednesday, a new law went into effect in Texas, over the objections of law enforcement, allowing all Texans otherwise allowed to own guns to carry them in public, without a license and without training. Now, 20 states have blessed such “permitless carry.”

And on Tuesday, the Texas legislature passed the final version of the Republican voting bill that bans drive-through and 24-hour voting, both used disproportionately by voters of color; imposes new limits on voting by mail, blocks election officials from distributing mail-ballot applications unless specifically requested; gives partisan poll watchers more leeway to influence vote counting; and places new rules and paperwork requirements that deter people from helping others to vote or to register. At least 17 states have adopted similar restrictions.

All three of these actions are deeply antidemocratic.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/01/texas-shows-us-what-post-democracy-america-would-look-like/

[Tennesseer]

If this is the direction the U.S. is heading, I'm glad I don't have that many years left on this planet.

[kadee79]

Sept 2, 2021 10:51:43 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

If this is the direction the U.S. is heading, I'm glad I don't have that many years left on this planet.

Me too Tenn.  And I'm betting that there will be blood shed before long too if this is the direction we continue to take.  These folks are in the minority, they should NOT be saying what the rest of us have to abide by....they are just louder than the rest of us.

[swamp]

It may be shitty in NY but I’m staying here.

[dondub]

Once again I am a proponent for the future secession of the left coast. If all those yayhoos want to act out, see you later. West of the Cascades to the Pacific.

[happyhoix]

Sept 2, 2021 14:03:09 GMT -5 dondub said:

Once again I am a proponent for the future secession of the left coast. If all those yayhoos want to act out, see you later. West of the Cascades to the Pacific.

Cut off the left coast, the right coast, and leave the middle of the country and the South to revert back to a 1950s sit com, where all the females are pretty and demure, everyone loves mom, apple pie and Jesus, and the few non whites hanging around are actually whites pretending to be Indians or Asians.

I know some friends and family who would move there in a heart beat.

[weltschmerz]

Sept 2, 2021 10:51:43 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

If this is the direction the U.S. is heading, I'm glad I don't have that many years left on this planet.

If this is the dierection the US is heading, I'm glad I'm in Canada. We need a wall to keep the insanity out.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

If Texas threatens to secede from the Union again can we say "Bye Felicia!" this time?

[movingforward]

I am so ashamed to be living in Texas right now. I have been ashamed before but never like this...I really have no other words.

[dondub]

Sept 2, 2021 15:45:33 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Sept 2, 2021 10:51:43 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

If this is the direction the U.S. is heading, I'm glad I don't have that many years left on this planet.

If this is the dierection the US is heading, I'm glad I'm in Canada. We need a wall to keep the insanity out.

Dire-ection.

[pulmonarymd]

If you are a women graduating from college looking for a job, o think you should think long and hard before taking one in Texas, or much of the south where the American taliban reigns

[movingforward]

If I wasn't 48 years old with a six figure income (and really like my job), I would be leaving the state of Texas. I can't imagine many young females wanting to live here.

In 7-8 years I will hopefully have enough money saved to leave my job and go elsewhere. Maybe even a different country...we will see what happens...

[Bob Ross]

Sept 2, 2021 16:18:08 GMT -5 movingforward said:

If I wasn't 48 years old with a six figure income (and really like my job), I would be leaving the state of Texas. I can't imagine many young females wanting to live here.

In 7-8 years I will hopefully have enough money saved to leave my job and go elsewhere. Maybe even a different country...we will see what happens...

Gotta wonder if this hints at part of the plan.

Texas is purple and was getting more blue, so enact policies that chase out the progressives and the young and ensure it'll be solidly red for all time.

After all, if Texas went blue, the GQP would be toast.

[Tennesseer]