Lemme guess, they call farm subsidies “tax relief”?
You’re OK with “oppos[ing] the teaching of … critical thinking skills?”
To be fair, Texas is the least subsidized of all Red states. I believe it may be the only one that gives more to the federal government in taxes than it gets back.* They don’t recieve nearly as much ag subsidies compared to the corn belt, for instance. ETA plus they have a younger population than a lot of other Red states and do not have as large a welfare roll as some Deep South states.
*As opposed to such teat-suckling, welfare-dependent states as New York and California who would actually be running budget surpluses if not for their subsidizing of the federal government!
I read it as railing against ‘new’ forms and philosophies of teaching. Some experimental (or did they go beyond experimental) approaches to math, for example, prioritized processes over results. Without wading into whether that was an actual problem or which pedagogy is more effective, it’s unlikely that the TxGOP is against ‘critical thinking’ in the conventional sense.
Cloth is kind of right, though, that most of the things on the list are simple political platitudes that don’t rise to the height of intense malignancy we’ve come to expect from Texas and the GOP. It’s also why I think the Iowa platform would beat the pants off Texas in a stupidfest.
Sometimes I wish that conservatives could suffer the consequences of the policies they propose. I’d love to see the reaction to a sales tax high enough to make up for the lack of tax on capital gains. They might as well have a platform that says: “We want to raise taxes on people with low income and lower it on rich people”.
Given the profound ignorance of many parents, the two parts of this statement seem mutually contradictory.
Aw, man. He was GREAT on Jeopardy!
I don’t know that,
This sounds like they are worried that if the school is teaching students to think for themselves they will start noticing things like the fact that gay marriage won’t destroy the nation, and that the bible isn’t inerrant. This is also interesting when compared to their strongly favoring teaching challenging prevailing view points when it comes to science and evolution. Basically keep an open mind that he scientific consensus might be wrong but close that mind up fast when it comes to challenging your parent’s beliefs.
Oh no, farmers live in their own little bubble when it comes to this.
When it’s conservative farmers, they’re not “subsidies” but a “safety net”.
I can’t help but laugh at the complete and total disconnect with reality.
Not since Osama announced his belief in global warming.
Change is coming, even to Texas. With agonizing slowness, to be sure, but it is coming. As a recovering Texan, I wholeheartedly support my progressive pals and gals in the Lone Stark Staring State. From waaaay up here.
If only I could get me some real damn Bar-B-Q. ’ Nuff sed.
I find it somewhat amusing that the Texas Democrat Party platform is all whine-whine-whine about dem ebbul Republicans, while continuing to spout utopian, government cradle-to-grave subsidies. And yet no one here is complaining about that.
Care to quote anything in the platform that says that? Or is this simply a drive-by?
Texas Republicans are absolutely in favor of subsidies as well. They simply don’t want to call them subsidies or admit they like them for their own pet causes. Texas farmers have been recipients of very large subsidies over the years. And military bases in Texas have enjoyed quite a bit of funding over the years, too. Good luck getting anything more than a token Texas Republican office holder to say that Texas farmers should suck it up for the sake of reducing government.
Without searching this thread, I will just put in a plug for Iowa’s GOP being equally crazy.
They haven’t given up on birtherism:
It also has this nugget from their Statement of Principles: “The husband and wife are the ultimate authority, not the government.”
- So if a husband and wife decide to hold up a single person they automatically are in the right?
Sad to say, it’s not just the deep south and West Virginia.
Not at all. Electricity is natural. Running electricity through a chair and a body is also natural, resulting in a natural death.
Well, he’s managed to get my without them for about 60 years. What’s good enough for one Texan is good enough for everyone.
Nothing “utopian” about that, it’s something that works in many countries. Looking around the world, it works better for all than anything else yet tried.
They mean the Titles of Nobility Amendment. Sometimes contards invoke it to say lawyers, who use the title of “Esquire,” should be ineligible for public office. There is even a meme that this amendment really was ratified but that news was somehow “suppressed” or the amendment was “unlawfully removed”.
They want to “10. Honoring all of those that serve and protect our freedom.”? Really? Does that include fully funding programs for the medical/mental/addiction care of veterans? Please, pretty-pretty please with sugar on it?
Some years ago, the Southern Baptist Convention & the Texas Republican Party got into bed with each other. The loathsome result has been running wild in Texas for some time & has begun affecting other states. Some call the movement Dominionism; this is from Reverend Doctor Bruce Prescott–a Baptist minister, but not SBC:
There’s much more to read–at that link & elsewhere.
Most urban Texans are Democrats, but the others still outnumber us. (Most of the New Texas Republicans were Democrats before LBJ pushed through Civil Rights & the Republicans decided to jettison that Party of Lincoln crap.)
We do have hope for the future but it gets depressing. Check out The Texas Observer & The Texas Freedom Network for alternatives.