Bat Sh** Crazy, Texas Republican Party Platform

A prominent historian, Heather Cox Richardson, puts out a daily newsletter, Letters from America, described as ” A newsletter about the history behind today’s politics.”

She had multiple themes today, much it about the January 6 hearings going in our national’s capital.  A couple things really caught my attention, one was a quote from a very conservative federal judge that he uttered during an NPR interview:

“[T]he former president and his party are today a clear and present danger for American democracy,”  Luttig reiterated to NPR’s All Things Considered.

And this gentleman is a Republican stalwart consulted by VP Mike Pence during the recent “troubles”.

She then went on to detail the platform passed by the delegates to the just finished convention of the Texas Republican Party.  Here is listing of some of the planks.

1. 1. 1. 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”
      2. requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization
      3. treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”
      4. locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9
      5. getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes
      6. abolishing the Federal Reserve;
      7. rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment
      8. returning Christianity to schools and government
      9. ending all gun safety measures
      10. abolishing the Department of Education
      11. arming teachers
      12. requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”
      13. defending capital punishment
      14. dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered
      15. protecting Confederate monuments
      16. ending gay marriage
      17. withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization
      18.  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.”

As far as I am concerned this certifies the Republican Party as bat shit crazy. I do not see the current Republican Party being that much different in other states.  Texas is perhaps a little more vocal in their insanity.  The only one I did not object to was limiting the number of Supreme Court justices, and then as I have not really considered that question very deeply.  And apparently Texans feel they are too special to stay within the United States of America, they would rather be their own country again…how patriotic.

And so it sadly goes.

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