Discussing the authoritarian standoff in Texas

 So...Texas situation. Feel like this is a really important one to discuss. Basically, Texas wants to gerrymander congress by redistricting in the middle of the decade. Democrats can't do much to stop it, except refuse to show up. If enough democrats dont show up, the vote can't proceed. So democrats decided to stop showing up to the state legislature to obstruct it. Ya know, like republicans often would do. Greg Abbott decided to go full authoritarian and put arrest warrants out on all the democrats who refused to show up. I'm not kidding. They literally wanna arrest the democrats who refuse to show up. This is psycho crap. This has caused the dems to flee the state, going to states with democrats who will protect them, like Illinois and New York, this is causing Texas to petition the FBI to go into blue states and arrest them, which is gonna create one heck of a constitutional crisis. Now the republicans are talking about kicking those members out of the legislature altogether and redistricting congress to be even more right wing. Again, psycho crap. 

Honestly, I respect the democrats for having backbone here. The GOP have spent a good 15 years obstructing everything the dems do and this is fighting fire with fire. Of course, the GOP aint happy about it and they're escalating. And i think they're in the wrong. Arresting them is basically authoritarian behavior, and another example of creeping fascism in our society. 

 Again, my stance is that we must fight fascism. Even at the expense of principles I'd normally hold. I have changed on some views since trump took office.  I hate gerrymandering, but if the GOP does it, so must we. If the GOP obstructs, so must we. Cancel culture? Well, okay, if we're fighting outright fascists calling for literally messed up and evil things like throwing people into concentration camps. And yeah, we're playing for keeps, we're playing to save our democracy, and if we gotta go scorched earth, so be it. We cant constrain ourselves while they just go around doing whatever they want breaking our democracy. If we play by one set of rules and they play by another, we lose. So yeah, i know it's distasteful, but that's what we gotta do.

Honestly, it terrifies me that things have gotten this bad in the first place. But I am happy to see some people standing up to them. We gotta do what we gotta do. We cant just let the GOP do a fascist takeover of our government.  And yeah that's all I gotta say for now.