Texas is a metaphor for selling out governmental responsibility

[malaise]

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to the market

Adding this perfect cartoon from JHB's cartoon thread
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215131204

[Irish_Dem]

1. A metaphor for corruption.

[malaise]

2. The two are identical

[Irish_Dem]

3. Exactly.

[flor-de-jasmim]

4. I wonder if fewer people still want to secede from the Union.

The map showing 3 power grids for the country was an eye opener: East, West and Texas.

I lived in Texas for 4 years, I have lived in 8 states and have traveled through 49 (I am missing Alaska), and I have never seen more overt State pride than in TX.

[malaise]

5. Great question

Dems have to do a better job arguing for government. They have given the trickle down posse wy too much space to destroy the social good policies.
Between the pandemic and climate change, this is the moment to crush all these neo-liberal assholes.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. And you are so right

There will be no 'unity'. There will be no 'bipartisanship'. The rethugs only want domination and riches, preferably those that they can seize without being held to account for them. There is only one way to handle this. As soon as the Dems stop playing nice and stop thinking they are better for not indulging in the same tactics that created 47 million trumpers, things around here just might change.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. The root is right wing economists in Texas

I read that somewhere, one of the institutions in the state is the locus of free market ideology. Probably stems from the oil industry and its anti-environmental regulation goals. U of Chicago, another conservative institution, if you can believe it, has nothing on them!

[malaise]

9. True but for years the engineers have been warning them that this was coming

On matters infrastructure, I always side with engineers over economists

[sarge43]

8. The profit motive is inherently amoral.

When it is the only motive and goal, Texas happens.