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The Texas GOP Party Platform: A Blueprint For Fascism
Once upon a time, a bunch of politicians got together and told each other, “Let’s tell everybody what we believe, a short list of bullet points of what our party is all about!” So they started making a list of everything they wanted to support, and the list became longer and longer. As the list passed one hundred, then two hundred bullets, some began to wonder if the list was becoming too long. Then one man spoke up and said, “It’s unAmerican to have fewer bullets. We’re not godless liberals — we’re real Americans, which means we must have more bullets than anyone else, even if those bullets are unnecessary or even harmful to others!”
And that’s how the Republican Party in Texas built a party platform that included 337 bullet points. Here’s some of the lowlights of the first 100, with boldface added for emphasis (followed by what is not written, but certainly meant):
2. [We believe in] The sanctity of innocent human life, created in the image of God, which should be equally protected from fertilization to natural death.
“As long as protecting our citizens from ‘post-birth natural death’ doesn’t involve spending our taxpayer dollars to preserve life or health (physical or mental) or to protect wrongly-convicted criminals from being executed.”
7. [We believe in] Having an…
