I received this in the mail recently, from the locally infamous Steven Hotze.* I know it's pretty much illegible in the photograph, but I just looked at it again (before tossing it in the shredder) and I found the blue side hilarious.
First, let me explain: this is a solicitation that I fill out an application to vote by mail, something "seniors" like yours truly, "love" to do (vote by mail, I mean. The damned application is a pain in the a**. I'm quite sure this will be removed from the law by 2024, because of what the Lege is going to hear this year and next.). Anyone over 65 in Texas can vote by mail just because they're over 65. So I'm on the list. The local county officials can't send me one of these, under new Texas law (they did until this year); but private parties can. Don't get me started on how stupid that is; or how likely it is by the next legislative session this provision (must apply annually to vote by mail) isn't rescinded, especially since Hotze and so many GOPers in Texas assume I'm gonna vote GOP because now I'm...on Social Security? Remind me again who started that?
Anyway....a partial reading of the "blue list" from the above.
The column is captioned "LIBERALS, LEFTISTS, SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS". It's just a spectrum, ya know, from bad to worst. The red column is "CHRISTIANS, CONSERVATIVES, PATRIOTS." Because Communists are godless ("under God" wasn't shoved into the Pledge for nothing!), donchaknow? This is a "good/bad" arrangement, as you can guess. I'll just give you some of the "bad":
"Atheistic, Secular World View--"Might makes right."
That one amuses me most. Apparently us godless commie liberals are in charge, and squashing our opponents because we can. I always thought "Might makes right" was a peculiarly right-wing, militaristic, even patriotic, stance. I'm confused....
"Support New World Order agenda."
That would be the thing Poppy Bush first labeled and announced? We have an "agenda"? Funny how "agenda" is automatically a bad thing, huh?
"Tolerate criminal behavior, rioting and looting during protests. Defund the police."
The almost wholly Democratic special committee of Congress couldn't be reached for comment. Nor the dead and wounded Capitol Police officers, nor all the incarcerated or arrested protestors from January 6 who engaged in criminal behavior, rioting, and looting, all in the name of protest.
"Open borders to create chaos."
You mean like the chaos of stripping families of their children under no legal authority whatsoever, then forcing government agencies and NGO's to struggle to reunite those families?
"Teach children to accept the perverted transgender lifestyle."
We've moved on from gay marriage; that's a lost cause. And yes, this is the guy who tried to scare all of Houston about transgendered persons going into public bathrooms to rape young white girls. As if public bathrooms were private dungeons, and as if transgendered persons were all child molesters. This one, by the way, is contrasted with the "Good" position: "Protect children from being perverted by liberal sex programs in school." Which basically means we're teaching children to be gay. Moving on...
"Support business' and government's [yes, just one, even though there are at least 3 in Texas alone, aside from the federal government] authority to mandate experimental 'vaccines' and medical treatment."
This from the same people clamoring for experimental treatments for covid (have monoclonal antibodies been more rigorously tested or used longer than mRna vaccines?).
"Approve homosexual 'mirage.' Everyone must accept, affirm and celebrate perverted sexual lifestyle. Promote pedophilia by supporting Drag Queen Story Hour for children. (Romans 1:18-32)"
I honestly don't know if "mirage" is supposed to be some kind of swipe at "marriage," or if he means homosexuality is fake. In either case, that Drag Queen Story Hour really sticks in his craw. In 2018 he sent out a flyer to get people to vote for the GOP slate of district court judges. The Democrats swept the elections for those positions: all black women. And as far as I know, no one was rounded up and forced to bring their child to Drag Queen Story Hour. (Come to think of it, no one's forced us to "gay marry," either. Whatever happened to might making right? Are we godless liberals using it wrong?) I guess we didn't think might makes right 4 years ago. I'm not gonna bother with the reference to Romans. It's the usual proof-texting bullshit that's not worth responding to.
"Pro-death - For killing unborn babies. Communists kill political opponents."
Babies are the political opponents of liberals?
"Increase taxes to redistribute income. Tax the producers to buy votes."
You know, all taxation redistributes income. My income for 20 years has come from a state-supported community college. The Lovely Wife works for a school district, supported by tax dollars. My federal taxes go to federal employees, defense contractors, even national park rangers (yay, park rangers!). I'm perfectly happy to see some of my income redistributed, even to clowns like my U.S. Senator and Representative. Even my personal spending redistributes my income. That's how economies work.
"Support government controlled healthcare."
You mean, like Medicare? Does he realize the people he's sending this to are most likely on Medicare? Remind me again who started that?
And most of us go on it ASAP because we're tired of the "free market solutions to health care" CHRISTIAN, CONSERVATIVES, and PATRIOTS uphold. Because we've dealt with that "solution:" it's called "health insurance." And it sucks!
Anyway, I'm convinced that, once again, I need to vote.
*Hotze signs himself as an M.D. What is it about medical degrees and rabidly conservative people? Does medical training addle your brain?
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