• @[email protected]OP
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    33 days ago

    I disagree that it’s only elected representatives that can fight. We the people can, even if that’s just pressuring our elected officials to do the right thing. Enough pushback does change votes and actions

    We can vote in local and statewide race. There are some local races in 2025 in Texas and other states

    We can run for office ourselves for local and statewide elections too. There’s groups like Run for Something that help progressives run and make sure no seat goes unchallenged

    We can organize unions to protect our labor rights

    and so on

    Yes, we won’t win every fight, but we can still block a lot of horrible things

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      13 days ago

      I totally like the energy, but there is no proof these are valid elections. The democrats in Texas consistently underperform against polls.

      If this was a real democracy there would be proof.

      While I do get it few here think this is an issue. There would be rioting in France should these same standards show up there.

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          13 days ago

          Texas is large. There will always be suppression, cheating, small victories for the good guys, and strangeness.

          It’s probably never been a real democracy where each person can cast one ballot that is always counted as it should be. It wasn’t in most of the 1800s, was not during the civil rights era, and is not today.

          But the methods of cheating have charged since the 1990s, and only exist now because very few people in Texas, who talk politics, understand democracy has two parts: the voting and the counting. And one should never trust the counters. Or trust but verify.