Fed up and fired up: Texas Republicans meet in a climate of mistrust, conspiracy and victimhood

[Somerville]

Yet another indicator of the growing divide in American society - beliefs that have ZERO actual support but that are held by some Americans to be more real than actual reality. It's not just Texans who have come to believe the crap that they receive from SOME politicians and talking heads on the TV, but the linked piece does a nice job describing the group that continues to support Trump. This article from the Texas Tribune does provide some insight into the minds of those who see themselves as targets of the New World Order funded by George Soros, even when they don't use his name. They believe they - White Christians - are being replaced by some uber-powerful entity that is pushing communism, destroying True Christians and turning the public into gullible minions.

Fed up and fired up: Texas Republicans meet in a climate of mistrust, conspiracy and victimhood​

HOUSTON — The Republican Party of Texas has controlled every lever of state government since 2003, and notched major victories last year on voting, redistricting, abortion, school curriculums and other long-held priorities. Delegates at the party’s convention this week expressed confidence that their party will retake at least the U.S. House this November, and said the end of abortion in Texas is all but settled.

But the mood was not celebratory. The Texas Tribune spoke to more than 25 attendees who described feeling besieged by a culture that is increasingly anti-family and anti-Christian.

Above all, attendees said they were fed up. [. . .]

“The enemy is coming in and trying to change our society, change the very fabric of what made America great and they're doing it by going to the children,” said Conny Moore, a 75-year-old retired pharmacist and pastor.

Among elected officials speaking at the convention, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz stole the show, receiving standing ovations on Friday as he thundered against “radical leftists” driving a cultural assault.

“They want to tear down the church,” he said. “They want to tear down our schools. They want to tear down our families. They want to tear down our faith. They want to tear down our values.”
[. . .]
This was a crowd familiar with The Great Replacement, the theory that immigrants are being used to replace white, native-born Americans, and The Great Reset, supposedly a plan by global capitalists meeting in Davos, Switzerland, to impose their environmental and social goals on the world economy and restrict what people can eat and own. Fox News did not come up much; One America Network and NewsMax seemed far more influential.

I like this little bit of willful blindness

Attendees were also in lockstep in their views on election integrity. Several said that in-person, watermarked, hand-counted, sequentially numbered paper ballots were the only trustworthy way to conduct an election (even though delegates themselves used Scantron ballots to vote on the platform planks, and the results won’t be known for days until the ballots are tallied in Austin).

 

[Bok Tuklo]

Forget it, Jake. It’s Texas.

 

[Chomsky]

Yet another indicator of the growing divide in American society - beliefs that have ZERO actual support but that are held by some Americans to be more real than actual reality. It's not just Texans who have come to believe the crap that they receive from SOME politicians and talking heads on the TV, but the linked piece does a nice job describing the group that continues to support Trump. This article from the Texas Tribune does provide some insight into the minds of those who see themselves as targets of the New World Order funded by George Soros, even when they don't use his name. They believe they - White Christians - are being replaced by some uber-powerful entity that is pushing communism, destroying True Christians and turning the public into gullible minions.



I like this little bit of willful blindness

Then there's this below, which seems to indicate a continuously deepening progression to radicalization!

“The battlefield used to be between Republicans and Democrats,” he told the convention on Saturday. “Then it was between conservatives and liberals. Now the battlefield has once again changed. We must improvise, adapt and overcome to defeat our enemy. This new battlefield, this new battlefield is between patriots and traitors.”

 

[Rexedgar]

They seem to be turning on their own. Cornyn was booed, Crenshaw and staff were assaulted. Is it just me or are there GOP gatherings every other week or so?

Far-Right Activists Hurl Attacks Toward GOP Lawmaker At Texas Convention

Rep. Dan Crenshaw faced criticism one day after Sen. John Cornyn was booed at the same convention.

www.huffpost.com

”eye-patch McCain” what is the GOP’s basis for their honorable veteran hate?