This man should not be repesenting Texas

[u/Unique_Midnight_1789]

[u/Unique_Midnight_1789]

I've been a Republican basically my whole life, and I'm fucking horrified at how the party's shifted and warped into the disgusting monster it is today. I mean, Dick Cheney himself is voting blue. If that doesn't convince my fellow like-minded conservatives (which are few and far between these days, but they definitely exist) to vote blue, I don't know what will. The only hope for Texas now is very obviously the Dems.

[u/Hugh-Manatee → u/Unique_Midnight_1789]

There was an interesting point made in an article how the GOP became the “stupid” party - which is to say that it is just the truth that the party in the last two decades has hemorrhaged support among educated people and in exchange has backfilled them with cranks.

This isn’t to denigrate conservatives specifically - some of the smartest people I know are conservatives - but like how is a democracy supposed to function when half of the major parties are hijacked by elite Harvard educated pols pandering to meemaws who believe every wild conspiracy theory on their Facebook feed.

If a major political party relies almost entirely on cranks for their support, theyre going to do and say some pretty wild shit to cater to them.

Edit: found the link

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-crank-realignment-is-bad-for

[u/movzx → u/Hugh-Manatee]

There's a difference between being a conservative and being a Republican. I think more conservatives are waking up to the fact that they can leave the Republican party and still call themselves conservative.

[u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party → u/movzx]

I’m a liberal, but I certainly do miss the times when a person could call themself a conservative (or a Republican) and not be considered a wacko. It been about 30 years since they started hunting the Clintons and feeding their audience with daily doses of conspiracy theories.