You Need To Stop

[summer_in_TX]

234. The other piece of this is we are doing it here too.

Labeling, name-calling, trying to shame. There's a lot of that in this thread – and on a number of other ones I've read. Some of it may be trolls, but I dunno. It feels like a vicious cycle.

The arguments we get into are distinctly more adamant than before the election, less friendly discussion, and they have a distinctly edgy and pissy tone too often.

Why, oh why, are the really long, passionate threads here these days the ones that revisit the theme of "I'll never forgive this group for voting that way," even when we try to shift the discussion the most important topic – how we are going to elect more Democrats in the fast approaching 2018 elections. (Frankly, it would get us further if we could let bygones be bygones, because that just is creating anger and making our goals harder to achieve, not easier.)

Figuring out how to encourage more candidates to file, helping them find the resources to be more successful, taking on the states where Rs control all the statewide offices like they do in Texas – those are the things we need to shift gears and focus on.

These storms and fires are likely playing havoc with the voter registration lists. Those who've lost homes are likely to have lost identifying documents too. Houston votes blue, so it's a big problem for Texas. Won't be that long until the legislature takes up redistricting again and we need a much better balance of control to prevent gerrymandering or Rs or going to continue to elect more than their numbers to all levels of our government.