Regarding meaningful legislation, the needle didn't move after twenty first graders and six educators were killed in the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. Same lack of action almost a decade later in Uvalde. The lawsuits which follow these massacres have no preventative value. (Though I personally enjoyed the pounding Alex Jones received in a Travis County courtroom.)
You are right that voters can make a difference... and that they won't.
You've offered yet another compendium of reasons why I have little hope for change in Texas come November. I'm afraid, politically, we are just a backwards ass state.
Texas Republicans are in thrall to the most extreme elements of their party. Texas Democrats are stuck in neutral with no message, money or leadership.
Regarding meaningful legislation, the needle didn't move after twenty first graders and six educators were killed in the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. Same lack of action almost a decade later in Uvalde. The lawsuits which follow these massacres have no preventative value. (Though I personally enjoyed the pounding Alex Jones received in a Travis County courtroom.)
You are right that voters can make a difference... and that they won't.
You've offered yet another compendium of reasons why I have little hope for change in Texas come November. I'm afraid, politically, we are just a backwards ass state.
Texas Republicans are in thrall to the most extreme elements of their party. Texas Democrats are stuck in neutral with no message, money or leadership.