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Long history of Texas Democrats trying to run to the center and then crashing and burning. The center is were Democrats go to die in Texas.
I’m not sure I agree with this take. We need baby steps down here to chip away at the redness.
Disagreed. Baby steps don’t inspire turnout.
Texas isn’t a purple state. It’s a non-voting state.
No one shows up for discount 10% off but only if you are 1.5631x the current median poverty-rate one time mail in rebate coupon legislation.
People need bold action.
That doesn’t necessarily mean making Texans angry by saying “bold” things like “we are going to take away all your guns” but instead something meaningful “we’re going to punish the companies who let you freeze in the dark in Feburary 2021 because they’re being cheap bastards and people like Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott don’t care if you die,” or “we’re going to forgive all medical debt,” or “we are going decriminalize marijuana.”
It’s why hundreds of people line up outside of a Denny’s on “Free Breakfast Day”… but no one would show up for a “$1 off your 1st pancake on the 3rd Tuesday every 4 months” coupon.
Bold proposals shake the apathetic into mobilizing and showing up… not half-ass milquetoast policy designed in an attempt to try to appeal to only the mOdErAtE fascists.
Republicans have ruled the state for almost 40 years. The baby steps ain't got them anywhere. The problem in Texas is Texas Democrats never Inspire turnout. The votes are there they just leave them where they are. Texas Democrats would rather pursue conservatives than win elections with leftists. Hell not even leftist just liberals.
My feeling is Allred here is going to do it again. He'll do better than most will because everyone hates Ted Cruz, but he'll still leave votes on the table like they always do. If I had to sum up the Texas democratic party and one phrase I'd say low energy. His campaign is looking like it's moving in that direction too.
The center you're talking about in America is far right.
Stop saying center...lol. It makes you look foolish.
Obama was right of Reagan, people. Just let it sink in.
Texas is a purple state, but there aren’t many votes to get in the middle. It’s a turnout game, and in a presidential year, it’s going to be hard.
We have seen this before. Running center right in red states is exactly how you lose my 15 to 20 points.
You need to offer people in red states radical new ideas.
You are likely going to lose, why not go out swinging big.
Who can blame him? Harris locked up over 1500 for pot and then laughed about it when asked if she ever smoked herself, blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts literally forced her to release it, kept people locked up beyond their sentences to use them as labor slaves for the state, and on and on. She's a cop of the worst kind, draconian, ruthless, and power hungry. You think Allred really wants to associate himself with this kind of conduct? Meanwhile the media is screaming "You go girl!!" just because she's running against Trump. Her past has been conveniently memory-holed.
"Who can blame him? Harris locked up over 1500 for pot and then laughed about it when asked if she ever smoked herself,"
As attorney general, Kamala Harris would not have personally prosecuted drug cases. Local district attorneys would generally prosecute such cases so to say Harris "put ... people in jail" as state attorney general is not accurate.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/analysis-tulsi-gabbard-kamala-harris/
But the attorney general’s office doesn’t directly prosecute the vast majority of drug cases in the state. That’s up to the individual district attorneys in each county, and it’s wrong to say Harris put those people in jail.
Still, Harris did directly prosecute marijuana cases as San Francisco district attorney from 2004 through 2010. The DA’s office has not yet released data about pot convictions during that time period.
"blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts literally forced her to release it,"
Did she hold the evidence herself or was it held in evidence and was previously tested already?
My understanding is that they withheld evidence and fought a court order to turn it over. It wasn't an accident.