# Texas Republican platform proposals are radical **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 20, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503 "2022-06-20T14:09:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/21 "2022-06-20T19:46:19Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Trump can say whatever he wants at any moment (and boy, does he!), but until those words are backed by actions, they’re meaningless. He’ll be saying something completely different in five minutes. - His attention span is nowhere near that long. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/22 "2022-06-20T20:17:49Z")
Well, rhetoric can and does matter; see Trump and 1/6. Though I agree in general that it doesn’t for Trump, given the old “he tells it like it is” coexisting with “he was joking.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/23 "2022-06-20T20:18:56Z")
Generally, when I say “doesn’t matter”, I mean, “doesn’t matter _to sensible people_”. Who the fuck knows what Trumpers are going to do? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/24 "2022-06-20T20:29:32Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Well, rhetoric can and does matter; see Trump and 1/6. Though I agree in general that it doesn’t for Trump, given the old “he tells it like it is” coexisting with “he was joking.” He can with rhetoric incite action. But it says nothing about his beliefs or values, what he will stand up for, whose rights he would take action to protect, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/25 "2022-06-20T20:45:39Z")
How did this become yet another thread about Trump? Somewhere in the first few posts someone posted something about Trump and the LGBTQ community that had nothing to do with Texas, and off we went. I want to read about idiots in Texas, not the one in Mar-a-Lago. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/26 "2022-06-20T21:00:27Z")
More on the moron platform: > **[The Texas GOP party platform — the madness continues](https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/06/19/the-texas-gop-party-platform-the-madness-continues/)** > > How deep into madness is the conservative agenda? The new platform would call for: Requiring Texas students “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child,” including teaching that life begins a… ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/27 "2022-06-20T21:37:42Z")
Remember when the conventional wisdom was that “the Republican fever will break”? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/28 "2022-06-20T21:42:18Z")
That was never conventional wisdom. That was a fairy tale Obama told himself long ago. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/29 "2022-06-20T22:23:09Z")
That’s like wanting to talk about chocolate and not mentioning Hershey. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/30 "2022-06-20T23:49:23Z")
Not mentioning Hershey’s chocolate is just good taste. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/31 "2022-06-21T00:12:08Z")
Are we doing this again? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/32 "2022-06-21T08:31:10Z")
If a thread is about Swiss chocolatiers but half the posts are debating Hershey bars, that’s an issue. While the national Republican Party is the Trump Party, I’m not sure the Texan one is. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/33 "2022-06-21T08:46:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Acsenray](#): > > > > It’s a huge document, with dozens of policy proposals. Shocking reading > > #19 of the “Principles”: > > > Support repeal of the 16th 126 Amendment (Federal Income Tax > > Um… how do they propose to fund the gummint? They don’t. They want to shrink government to the point they can drown it in a bathtub. They want a weak government so strong (White Christian heterosexual) men can be in charge of their little fiefdoms. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/34 "2022-06-21T10:33:24Z")
I know that’s what they **think they want** , but do they have a clue about how infrastructure like the Post Office (sad as it is today) is paid for, or the military, or how interstate highways get maintained? I mean, seriously, do they? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/35 "2022-06-21T10:38:33Z")
No, I don’t think so. And even if they did, they’d want to replace the Post Office with a private messenger/delivery service because The Free Market Is God. Convert public roads to toll roads or private roads. Military? I have no idea what they’re thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/36 "2022-06-21T11:32:00Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I know that’s what they **think they want** , but do they have a clue about how infrastructure like the Post Office (sad as it is today) is paid for, or the military, or how interstate highways get maintained? I mean, seriously, do they? The Rank and File idiots? No, of course not. The party leaders? Yes, almost certainly, because they’ve spent years now [screwing with the US Post Office with the deliberate intent of destroying it as a viable government service](https://www.dcreport.org/2020/06/01/inside-the-radical-republican-war-on-the-post-office/). You can’t pull that off if you don’t understand how it all works in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/37 "2022-06-21T11:35:44Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Military? I have no idea what they’re thinking. Trump hinted at it when he kept complaining that NATO wasn’t paying for all the US bases around the world: The United States Mercenary Corps. _USMC: Bringing You All The Freedom&Democracy™ You Can Afford!_ ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/38 "2022-06-21T13:39:41Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Military? I have no idea what they’re thinking. In one of his books from about ten years ago, Ron Paul justified ending the income tax by noting that other sources–corporate tex, tariffs, etc.–would generate as much revenue as the total 1997 federal budget. So I guess they’re going to ask the military to take a pay cut to what they earned fifteen years ago. I’m sure that’ll work out fine. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/39 "2022-06-21T16:51:11Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > As tempting as it is to want to give these people their own Covenant where they can ensconce themselves and their regressive, repugnant ideology so absurd that even Margaret Atwood can’t top it, they don’t get to take a chunk of my country or the unfortunate people who happen to reside there but don’t agree with this outlandish nonsense. I thought this too…20+ years ago. And here we are. They keep succeeding and spreading this ideology. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503/40 "2022-06-21T17:38:16Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I thought this too…20+ years ago. And here we are. They keep succeeding and spreading this ideology. And you think giving away Texas will satiate this desire? Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-republican-platform-proposals-are-radical/966503.md?page=3)