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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Texans are so easily manipulated by thinly disguised misogyny and homophobia, then it's even more backasswards there
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Is this the kind of thing that will actually change opinions and votes in Texas? If Texans are so easily manipulated by thinly disguised misogyny and homophobia, then it's even more backasswards there than I had previously thought. I don't want to know people who would fall for this.
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tanyev
(49,874 posts)who manages to nail one beautiful mistress after another."
*Unuttered subtext
hatrack
(65,308 posts)The Wizard
(13,922 posts)raised the idea of making teaching critical thinking illegal. Do you need to know more about the Republic of Texas? Who loves the poorly educated?
walkingman
(11,256 posts)but the lunatic asylum is full at the local and state level. I prefer to segregate myself from that genre, but it is not easy when many glamorize that mentality on TV series like in Yellowstone and Landman.
If Talarico cannot win in a State like Texas where there is a mix of Bible Belt and Shitkicker mentality then there is no hope.
I try and take myself back to the early 70s in Austin and I know there are a lot of good folks around before all of these misfits moved in from elsewhere and turned it into Gilead.
What's next a wrestling match or a chicken fight at the State Capital in Austin?
Oneironaut
(6,361 posts)And also, drive a supercharged enormous truck and wear a cowboy hat to show everyone how rugged they are. That type
mwmisses4289
(5,015 posts)The repuke politicians are...uniformed...to put it kindly, and are worse than little kids hiding under the covers to protect themselves from monsters under the bed. They don't seem happy unless they can find more and more things to be afraid of.
There are pockets of light, but the repukes down here are trying their damndest to snuff them out.
ananda
(35,706 posts)and it's always been sexist and homophobic.
My own family is a good example of this..
dclarston13
(451 posts)As a Texam for 30+ years but born in raised in Brooklyn here's how I see it. Texans were/are particularly brainwashed by the cowboy tough guy mentality. Because so many westerns use Texas as their location. In the movies, cowboys eat steak not vegetables, Cowboys kill their enemies. Cowboys save poor defenseless women. I live in a predominately Hispanic area and I would that hispanic men also have similar traits. Texans historically fell for carpet baggers quite a bit. And what do have running the country now? A modern carpet bagger.