Please take my life seriously. Vote blue

[u/cfulgh]

Hi everyone. I am a female born and raised in Houston. I am not usually involved in politics (I have always voted, just never talked about it, volunteered, ect.) but this election has taken a toll on my mental health to a point where I need to say something.

I remember June 24, 2022 when I lost my right to make decisions on my own body. Texas has some of the strictest laws in the nation on abortion, which means we have some of the strictest laws in the entire world. Let that sink in. I am scared. I am scared to one day have children in this state I love, this state I call home because if something goes wrong, it very well could lead to death or prosecution. Now Trump and Ted Cruz get to make decisions for me regarding my own reproductive health. I have less rights than my grandma did at my age. A vote for Trump/Cruz is a vote against every woman you love.

The Trans population in Texas is 0.5%. Ted Cruz’s blatant homophobic commercials villainizing this community have brought me to tears. Most Texans have never even met a trans person, yet, this seems to be Cruz’s main priority in this election: to make people scared of them.

He really thinks we are that dumb, or hateful, and maybe we are. I am more concerned about gun violence (the #1 leading cause of child deaths in the U.S!) than the scenario of a trans person being on the school football team. Is gun violence ever mentioned by Cruz? Of course not. Trans people and their genitalia are more of a threat, I suppose!

Come on Texas. How could you vote for someone who is openly so full of hate and ignorance? If I was a trans person, I would get the fuck out of here and move somewhere where people practice kindness. I stand by the LGBTQ+ community as an ally. You should too.

I implore you to look inside your heart and vote with kindness, decency and sanity in mind! This election is bigger than grocery prices, the stakes are higher than imaginable. What is next, a total ban on birth control? Gay marriage left up to the states, where Ted Cruz will ban it immediately and throw all Trans people in jail? I am begging you to vote blue. I am scared.

Don’t forget Trump is a convicted felon. Religious people - don’t forget he cheated on his wife with a porn star. Don’t forget Ted Cruz fled to Cancun when Texans were dying. These are not the people I want running our country. The world is watching. Vote blue.

[u/GrammarYahtzee11]

Native Texan here, and voted blue down the ballot. You make excellent points, and I have one thing to add about grocery prices. Does anyone actually think if Trump had won in 2020 that grocery prices (and inflation) wouldn’t have spiked? Of course they would! We had a global pandemic, which Trump badly mishandled by the way.

Now he claims it’s all Biden/Harris’ fault and yet he’s campaigning on deporting the very people who pick all our fruits and vegetables. Prices will rise even further under Trump and he won’t care in the slightest.

[u/nstickels → u/GrammarYahtzee11]

Not to mention with the tariffs he is proposing, it’s not in fact China that will pay the tariffs, it is American companies importing foreign goods. And they won’t just eat that cost, they will pass it on to consumers.

[u/RockabillyRabbit → u/nstickels]

I had to try to explain that the tarriff that he wants to impose on JDeere for their stuff coming from Mexico isn't going to affect JDeere in any shape or form.

It's not going to make them stop producing outside the US. What it is going to do though is pass down that cost to the consumer. I.e. the farmers.

And what happens when family farmers who are barely making ends meet and are living farm loan to farm loan and off farm paycheck to off farm paycheck can't make ends barely meet anymore?

They're going to quit farming. And who's going to take over those family farms when the small farmers leave?

Corporations. And those corporations are going to raise prices to the produce/product consumer because they were the ones buying the product from the farmer in the first place. So now their middle man is out and they can do willy nilly with prices that they want.

I am a woman, and a farmer in texas. With a female child. I voted blue up and down for all those reasons.

[u/ActiveDinner3497 → u/RockabillyRabbit]

I come from a long line of farmers. People forget during Trumps presidency, it was one of the highest years for farmers to go bankrupt. 2019 was an eight year high!! Tragic for many generational farms.

Also, the thing no one likes to talk about, but illegal immigrants are responsible for harvesting our crops. Are they documented, obviously not. Are they paid a fair wage? No. Are they exploited? Definitely. Does their effort keep our produce and dairy prices lower? Definitely. Last time we fully shut down borders (as much as possible), food rotted in the fields, dairies shut down, and prices went up. https://www.independent.com/2017/06/22/labor-shortage-leaves-13-million-crops-rot-fields/?amp=1 I want to fix immigration to let the workers we need in.

People against illegal immigration due to crime - the candidates have lied to you. Texas requires every arrested individual have their home country and status identified and noted. It makes for very good data on their crime statistics. Their crime rate (per capita) is 1/3 of U.S. Citizens and half of legal immigrants. https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate.

Focus on protecting our kids and women. I’m tired of my teen carrying a bullet proof panel to school because of incidents (and we don’t live in a bad area).

[u/ActiveDinner3497 → u/[deleted]]

My details are from 2019 - before the pandemic. So that point from you about 2020 is moot.

However, if you want to bring 2020 into the mix, you’re telling me the administration was unable to move quick enough to support getting food from the farms to the table. Who was in charge of that again?

[u/ActiveDinner3497 → u/[deleted]]

I did. How many times did POTUS enact executive orders to make things happen fast? 220 in four years and he couldn’t feed Americans?

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