Y’all, this is why you need to vote, including your local races. All an ideology like this needs to grow is fertile ground, a propaganda apparatus to spread it, and a willing legislature.
Vote like your lives depend on it, vote like your families’ and friends’ lives depend on it, because it very well might.
This isn’t about apathy.
This is about how pointless it is to “get out the vote” on a not just left leaning, but overwhelmingly left leaning platform, on a post where no one is going to read further who isn’t already politically minded.
All that’s doing is making people feel like they accomplished something while doing fuck all.
If you actually care, go out and actually do something.
Stop acting holier than thou because you remind people to vote who were already going to. That’s the real apathy problem in TX. But instead of maybe getting through to all those apathetic voters you reference, we’re just sitting an echo chamber reminding each other to vote
I get your frustration and agree with your points, including the necessity of action. But action starts with words in places like this, which we all then take with us into our real, physical lives. There’s no need to discourage that.