This is on the Republican primary ballot and is largely to oil up their base into voting so they can sweep the House and Senate (state and federal). This is red meat for the hogs. The propositions themselves only mean something insofar as Texan politicians getting elected to take oil money and get book deals.
Texas very well could become a weird de jure fascist theocracy like you said, but it would be an aesthetic front to a de facto corporate kleptocracy that has no real interest in separating from the federal government. There's not enough money to keep an independent Texas afloat for a few months, but maybe Abott or Head State Priest Joel Osteen would attempt to keep it going anyway. I just don't see the proper level of interest in it.
My real belief is Texan politicians are attempting to become the anti-California, pushing the most fascist nonsense possible to attract middle class and petite bourgeois reactionary dipshits into moving in, building up housing in the DFW suburbs, and then promising them low or no property taxes. I look at this and see a kind of really stupid real estate investment ad, which is one of the only industries in Texas that's actually growing. Look at how the school choice stuff and racism and transphobia is right there alongside a proposition to eliminate property taxes while also maintaining no state income tax.
Texas very well could become a weird de jure fascist theocracy like you said, but it would be an aesthetic front to a de facto corporate kleptocracy that has no real interest in separating from the federal government.
Yeah, american balkanization is probably gonna be just that, a weaker and more incompetent federal government that starts to exist more as a figurehead status to try and project american hegemony on the world thats already starting to leave them behind.
Texan politicians are attempting to become the anti-California, pushing the most fascist nonsense possible to attract middle class and petite bourgeois reactionary dipshits into moving in, building up housing in the DFW suburbs, and then promising them low or no property taxes. I look at this and see a kind of really stupid real estate investment ad
A related possibility is that they are reacting to demographic change and the slipping status of Texas as a GOP bastion.
In addition to gerrymandering, just attract the voters you want. American federalism in action.
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This is on the Republican primary ballot and is largely to oil up their base into voting so they can sweep the House and Senate (state and federal). This is red meat for the hogs. The propositions themselves only mean something insofar as Texan politicians getting elected to take oil money and get book deals.
Texas very well could become a weird de jure fascist theocracy like you said, but it would be an aesthetic front to a de facto corporate kleptocracy that has no real interest in separating from the federal government. There's not enough money to keep an independent Texas afloat for a few months, but maybe Abott or Head State Priest Joel Osteen would attempt to keep it going anyway. I just don't see the proper level of interest in it.
My real belief is Texan politicians are attempting to become the anti-California, pushing the most fascist nonsense possible to attract middle class and petite bourgeois reactionary dipshits into moving in, building up housing in the DFW suburbs, and then promising them low or no property taxes. I look at this and see a kind of really stupid real estate investment ad, which is one of the only industries in Texas that's actually growing. Look at how the school choice stuff and racism and transphobia is right there alongside a proposition to eliminate property taxes while also maintaining no state income tax.
Yeah, american balkanization is probably gonna be just that, a weaker and more incompetent federal government that starts to exist more as a figurehead status to try and project american hegemony on the world thats already starting to leave them behind.
A related possibility is that they are reacting to demographic change and the slipping status of Texas as a GOP bastion.
In addition to gerrymandering, just attract the voters you want. American federalism in action.