"Catapillar" and Confederates; Texas declares War on the United States

Greg Abbott cooed over "Catapillar" moving to Texas, eliding the fact that Caterpillar is simply relocating their headquarters to Texas, to avoid pesky rules, regulations, Unions and taxes.  Companies are always willing to race-to-the-bottom, undercutting Government and empowering fascists because they expect after a few years of Republican malfeasance and neglect of government, sane Democrats take over and attempt to fix the damage wrought by Republicans.

Like an ever-growing accretion disc of fascism, Texas is drawing too itself all the biggest Rightwing thieves and grifters; Joe Rogan and Elon Musk for instance, but Greg Abbott signed legislation last year empowering CryptoCurrency Con-artists to move to Texas further overwhelming and undercutting regular Texans and the power grid.

It has been fascinating and horrifying year and half watching the Republican change from slowly slipping into Fascism into a full-fledged embrace.

The Texas Rape-publican Party released its' platform, and its' grotesque descent and muscular embrace of all things authoritarian, heralds the Future of the GOP.

As Heather Cox Richardson, the inestimable historian writes,

delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party today approved platform planks rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”; requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization; treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”; locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9; getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes; abolishing the Federal Reserve; rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment; returning Christianity to schools and government; ending all gun safety measures; abolishing the Department of Education; arming teachers; requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”; defending capital punishment; dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage; withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization; and calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.” 

The January 6th hearings are showing how deep and widespread the fascist impluse is on the Right, as well as, highlighting how far reaching and coordinated the traitor Republican Government was in their attempted TrumPutsch.  It wasn't just a mob action, it wasn't just a bunch of wack-a-loon rightwing paramilitary dorks, even after the violence Republicans stuck to their script, blamed Antifa, and voted to suspend the transition of power.  And make no mistake the "peaceful" part of the transition of power had already been destroyed by Trump and his Republican cronies, the vote after the violence was just the bureaucratic attempt to re-install Trump and Pence via legislative Coup.

But, this Texas Platform of hatred, intolerance, bigotry, deference to Southern Conservative Arch-Traitors, and enshrinement of unrestricted gun violence is a Harbinger of what the Republicans will and are doing in other States and what the Rape-publican Party will do Nationally in 2025, if they recapture the Congress and Presidency.

Understand, despite the Texas Republicans waggling their thin dicks that they might secede, that's as hollow a threat as their heads in their Stetsons.  Texas and the Modern Republican Party are not interested in Secession like their Southern ancestors, not when they are successfully imposing their Will via bureaucratic violence and byzantine legal minutiae.  Successfully thwarting Democratic initiatives and delaying legislation which has overwhelming American backing, like Gun Control measures.

The future will be a return to conservative states imposing their Will, via the Federal Government, on recalcitrant liberal states.  We could see the Unjust Supreme Court mandating Police forces in Illinois, California, New Mexico, Georgia, detain persons with out of state plates from say Florida, Texas, and Missouri and determine if their is a pregnant women from that State in the car.  We could see Trump-appointed Judges issuing Country Wide warrants demanding the arrest and transport of married gays and 

If you think these are fanciful overwrought fears, think again.  Rightwing violence isn't coming... it's here.