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Vogon_Glory

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4. Time Was When, But Maybe I'm Imagining It
Wed May 27, 2015, 08:54 PM
May 2015

Time was when (but maybe I'm imagining it) when Texas Hispanics would have been so angered by Coulter's tripe that they would have responded by locating Coulter's pet politicians and voting them out of office.

I realize that I'm bitter at the electorate's behavior. I fear that I expect Texas right-wingers to throw reason and thought for the future aside when they vote for crazy nuts in their primaries.

But I am bewildered and disheartened by the indolence and lack of self-respect of tens of thousands, no, HUNDREDS of thousands of potential Texas voters who are too apathetic in the face of vituperation to go to the small bother of registering to vote, then using either early voting or the chance to vote on Election Day to respond to their tormentors by cutting their tormentors' political creatures' careers short at the ballot box.

I can't help but think of a bumper sticker I like. The caption is "There is some #### that we won't eat." Yet the response from the Latino electorate in Texas to Coulter's remarks seems to be its usual torpor. Surely responding to such calumnies by political action isn't just an Anglo-American thing. Isn't it?

I used to be more hopeful about the political future of the Lone Star State. My hope is withering away.

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