Texas GOP Amendment Would Stop Democrats Winning Any State Election

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-gop-amendment-would-stop-democrats-winning-any-state-election-1904988

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  2. The GOP Fascist takeover of America is out in the open.

  3. I have no idea why anyone would be a Republican unless you are white, straight, cis, Christian, rich and male. Texas is becoming Nazi Germany.

  4. The GOP’s proposed scheme is to elect officials by a majority of counties instead of voters, so Texas will be controlled by all the unpopulated red areas on the map.

  5. How exactly do these idiots think secession would work? Suddenly everyone in Texas is in a foreign country overnight, federal money would disappear (which TX uses FAR more of than then give back), every company that wanted to continue to do business with the rest of the states would vacate, and oh yeah, there are 15 active military bases in Texas that (checks notes) don’t answer to fucking Texas.

  6. So they saw the electoral college, realized how it benefits them on a federal level, and decided to give it a go on the state level, too. But even worse.

  8. Texas GOP: disenfranchising the majority of Texans.

    These people are inviting a civil war. Greg Abbot and company need to learn about the fate of tyrants.

  9. If this plan succeeds it’ll only serve to completely annihilate Texas’s largest cities which will continue voting for Democrats and policies that aren’t Republican. Factory owners don’t want to negotiate their facility’s existence with people who are not accountable and have no consequences for their actions. Neither do mine owners or bank owners. That sort of problem is a huge liability as they cannot control it, and Texas’s GOP has shown that they will destroy anything that criticizes them publicly. California doesn’t do this, despite the state’s notorious and awful environmental and hazardous waste laws. Every Chevron station in California has big posters talking mad shit about Newsom right now, and he is still giving them free money to (eventually) manufacture hydrogen fuels with.

    A century ago they did this with the railroads and it worked then due to the gigantic monopoly they had, which was then smashed permanently by the US Highway and Interstate network. This doesn’t exist today, and the policies Texas would pursue as a consequence of this would only make life more expensive for Texans, throttle the state’s industries, and continue subsidizing a rural lifestyle that is entirely dependent on cheap water and Federal corn subsidies that won’t exist in 25 years.

  10. What’s to stop Democrats from running as Republicans and just voting as Democrats? Will they make voting the wrong way a crime too?

  11. The absurd amount of irony in that it should be Democrats purchasing and hoarding weapons because Republicans are taking away rights from citizens of the country.

  12. Wasn’t Abbot just begging a Democrat for more federal money from climate change disasters he doesn’t believe in

  13. Another reason Texas sucks. Abbott & Cruz are the first two…

  14. Heil, Abbott! And practice sticking that arm out at the right angle because these guys are playing keepsies.

    VOTE BLUE.

  15. As usual, Republicans can only win by cheating. The lowest of the low. 

  16. Guess Republican figured out how to let “Land” vote.

  18. I think they should secede. Then we place the national guard around the border and wait.

  20. Seems similar to the Electoral College but without weighing the states (counties) by population. This system would be like making California (~40 mill people) have the same voting power as Wyoming (less than 1 million people), etc.

  23. Aw republicans are scared that they might lose so they have to make laws to make sure they win. How cute.

    Never vote Republican. I wouldn’t.

  24. Republicans cheat.
    In most things, when you cheat you get kicked out of the game.
    Why can’t we eject our traitors?

  25. The one-person, one-vote standard is abrogated by this concept

    A direct violation of the terms of statehood.

    Article IV, Section 4

    **The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,** and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

  26. It will go to the Supreme Court, where it will be upheld.

  29. If you own more dirt then of course you deserve 100,000x more voting power.

  31. I’ve often wondered why states don’t adopt an electoral college-type system

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