White Texas Republicans must be enraged to be celebrating the Juneteenth Holliday, mandated by the Federal Government.
Texas Republicans are pushing for a referendum to decide whether the state should secede from the U.S.
The demand for Texans to be allowed to vote on the issue in 2023 was one of many measures adopted in the Texas GOP's party platform following last week's state convention in Houston.
Under a section titled "State Sovereignty," the platform states: "Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.
Another bad idea many Republicans embrace.
At the Texas Republican Convention Ted Cruz is confronted for being insufficiently Radical
By Hunter
"We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States," says the Texas Republican Party.
Congratulations, Texas Republicans. You're officially a seditious conspiracy cult.
But the new Texas Republican platform, as reported by The Texas Tribune, is more than the bleatings of an especially active cult. The party produced a document fully in tune with its fascist base; declaring non-allegiance to the elected leader of the United States is only the capper in a Texas Republican platform riddled with conspiracy and brazenly fascist rhetoric.
The party again asserts that Texas has a right to secede from the United States, because of course it does. It also demands a new Constitutional convention to rewrite the founding documents of the nation it demands the right to leave.
I bet there are as many Democratic leaning Texans as Republican leaners, but the hurdle is getting them registered and getting them to turn out and vote. Too many see voting in Texas as futile, as new voting restrictions take effect. 19 years of Republican rule has discouraged too many Texans who want change. I hope Beto can bring them out.