Still you have to admit it’s pretty crappy to hear someone who once went to bat for trans people, walk it back. I still think he’s a good candidate, better than Paxton and better than other Texas Democrats like Cuellar.
Oh yeah, it’s crappy, but I’d rather he do that, win, and go on to support trans rights than say the whole truth now, lose, and be a footnote in history while Ken Paxton brings about a full blown holocaust for anyone who isn’t white, male, cisgender, and conservative.
Texas politics is really messy—I have been saturated in it my entire life. You’ve got to appeal to insane cowboys and city hippies at the same time to win as a democrat, and that’s no easy task. To steal a line from Primary Colors:
He had to tell his little stories and smile his shit-eating back country grin, and he did it all just so he could have the opportunity to one day stand before the nation and appeal to the better angels of our nature. And that’s where the bullshit stops. That’s what it’s all about—so we have the opportunity to do it the right way. You know as well as I do, that plenty of people playing this game, they don’t think that way. They’re willing to sell their souls, crawl through sewers, lie to people, divide them, play on their worst fears for nothing! Just for the prize.
Still you have to admit it’s pretty crappy to hear someone who once went to bat for trans people, walk it back. I still think he’s a good candidate, better than Paxton and better than other Texas Democrats like Cuellar.
But yeah, is Texas unfortunately.
Oh yeah, it’s crappy, but I’d rather he do that, win, and go on to support trans rights than say the whole truth now, lose, and be a footnote in history while Ken Paxton brings about a full blown holocaust for anyone who isn’t white, male, cisgender, and conservative.
Texas politics is really messy—I have been saturated in it my entire life. You’ve got to appeal to insane cowboys and city hippies at the same time to win as a democrat, and that’s no easy task. To steal a line from Primary Colors: