To my fellow Americans whingeing and whining about the make-up of the Senate and 115th United States Congress, remember that it's largely due to your laziness. Need I remind you, the 2014 midterms voter turnout was a paltry 36.4% the lowest in 70 years. My home state of Texas went gangbusters with a "massive" 28.4% turnout. Let's hope on November 6, we the people can at least crack the 50% barrier!
Here in Texas we have a doozy of a contest, well, if you have pasty skin and admire white European men taking each other on in America's most divers state, then you're in luck. Beto O'Rourke (doesn't want to promote his Irish heritage by using his actual name, Robert Francis, so goes by the Spanish nickname for Robert, good move, we saw how that Kennedy movie ended in Dallas) and Ted Cruz (born in Canada, speaks very poor Spanish for a someone with Cuban ancestry, forgoes his name of Rafael, so he's just as white as Mitch McConnell).
Beto is raising campaign funds like no other, nit relying on Super Pacs (nice way of saying political lobbyists wanting to dictate your opinions) and having visited all 254 Texas counties has helped him gain national recognition, his boyish good looks and days as a musician haven't hurt either. He currently serves in the U.S. Congress representing Texas' 16th District (home to El Paso), personally, I fee that his views are middle-of-the-road liberal, most conservatives in countries like Japan or Spain would support his views, universal healthcare, tight restriction on guns. However, this is Texas, where those views are considered socialist. With all this attention, he's literally being swamped by folk wherever he goes (just last week 60,000 turned out to see him in Austin), he still trails Cruz by 6% in the latest polls. I go back to my point of voter turnout, especially rings true in Texas.
Ted Cruz is a full-time politician, one of those classic conservatives that hates government, yet relies on a paycheck from the government. He advocates Tea Party style revolution, but all he can muster is lecturing folk on constitutional law whilst taking government handouts. Don't get me started on how much he spends on wining and dining in D.C. establishments, not to mention all the travel expenses. If only he practiced what he preached and actually did something for Texans he might well be in the White House now. Instead he sucks up to a President that bullied him and his family.
This great state is home to 28 million folk, most of the urban areas housing the majority if the population are skewed Democrat, but those are the people not turning out. The rural counties in Texas have habit of ganging up and fully backing the Republicans, hence why a Democrat Senator hasn't been sent to D.C. since 1993. Like California, Texas is becoming a minority-majority state, Hispanics are a big in numbers, but are not motivated to vote. Only when they participate more will we get the definitive answer as to whether or not Texas is really a Red State.
Only in Texas do two Ivy league graduates battle it out to garner the votes of folk who despise east coast educated politicians. In a perfect world we would have two people that actually represent the diversity of Texas, but politics is still a privileged white mans' game. On a side note, Lupe Valdez is running for Texas governor. She also happens to be a former sheriff and a proud 70-yer-old Hispanic gay woman. Currently trailing Governor Greg Abbott by 19.4%, which about sums up Texas Democrats in a nutshell.
To those not living in the Lone Star State, I wish you had enough time you to move here and register to vote. If you're reading this from outside the U.S. I feel sorry for you, living in nations where all you do is lose sleep over America is no way to live. Don't get caught up all this nationalist huff and puff coming from Washington, doors are open to y'all wanting to live in this nation built by immigrants for immigrants. Look no further than Houston, now America's most diverse city, not even a racist Commander-in-chief can stop H-town from being America's most diverse city.
Here in Texas we have a doozy of a contest, well, if you have pasty skin and admire white European men taking each other on in America's most divers state, then you're in luck. Beto O'Rourke (doesn't want to promote his Irish heritage by using his actual name, Robert Francis, so goes by the Spanish nickname for Robert, good move, we saw how that Kennedy movie ended in Dallas) and Ted Cruz (born in Canada, speaks very poor Spanish for a someone with Cuban ancestry, forgoes his name of Rafael, so he's just as white as Mitch McConnell).
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| Everything is bigger in Texas, including political signs. There are so many Beto signs in Big D that they even outnumber squirrels. |
Ted Cruz is a full-time politician, one of those classic conservatives that hates government, yet relies on a paycheck from the government. He advocates Tea Party style revolution, but all he can muster is lecturing folk on constitutional law whilst taking government handouts. Don't get me started on how much he spends on wining and dining in D.C. establishments, not to mention all the travel expenses. If only he practiced what he preached and actually did something for Texans he might well be in the White House now. Instead he sucks up to a President that bullied him and his family.
This great state is home to 28 million folk, most of the urban areas housing the majority if the population are skewed Democrat, but those are the people not turning out. The rural counties in Texas have habit of ganging up and fully backing the Republicans, hence why a Democrat Senator hasn't been sent to D.C. since 1993. Like California, Texas is becoming a minority-majority state, Hispanics are a big in numbers, but are not motivated to vote. Only when they participate more will we get the definitive answer as to whether or not Texas is really a Red State.
Only in Texas do two Ivy league graduates battle it out to garner the votes of folk who despise east coast educated politicians. In a perfect world we would have two people that actually represent the diversity of Texas, but politics is still a privileged white mans' game. On a side note, Lupe Valdez is running for Texas governor. She also happens to be a former sheriff and a proud 70-yer-old Hispanic gay woman. Currently trailing Governor Greg Abbott by 19.4%, which about sums up Texas Democrats in a nutshell.
To those not living in the Lone Star State, I wish you had enough time you to move here and register to vote. If you're reading this from outside the U.S. I feel sorry for you, living in nations where all you do is lose sleep over America is no way to live. Don't get caught up all this nationalist huff and puff coming from Washington, doors are open to y'all wanting to live in this nation built by immigrants for immigrants. Look no further than Houston, now America's most diverse city, not even a racist Commander-in-chief can stop H-town from being America's most diverse city.
