Alex WildAug 16, 2023

It's not that Americans themselves are getting more fascist, more hateful. If anything, Americans are becoming more tolerant.

It's that a small set of extremely rich people is getting bolder about funding extremism, bolder about supporting coups, bolder about buying courts.

Show threadAlex WildAug 16, 2023
Recognize that the Texas oil billionaires are a national security risk, people who are willing to spill a lot of other people's blood to get their way.
Show threadStaid WinnowAug 16, 2023
@alexwild Then recognize that a majority of Texans will elect legislators who empower the oil magnates even more.
Show threadAlex WildAug 16, 2023
@staidwinnow They are a slightly smaller majority every year.
Show threadStaid Winnow

@alexwild Perhaps. And with gerrymandering, more right wing legislators get elected.

But where gerrymandering doesn’t factor in, for example,

Abbott won by 10 points, a landslide.
Paxton, someone the Republicans want to impeach? 8 points landslide.

Texans are to blame a lot.

Aug 16, 2023 at 4:17pmWeb