I grow increasingly annoyed by people saying things like “If Texas wants to secede, let it!” Why? Because Texas is a rather monolithic place, and just because there’s a small minority of crazy people who’d probably like to secede –including our ridiculous governor– it’s completely unfair to lump us all together. Texas, on the whole, does NOT want to secede. Yes, most of us like being Americans and know full well that if we weren’t a part of America, we’d be living in a dump of a third world country in a matter of months, if not weeks. Hell, we’re almost a dump of a third world country now, thanks to entirely too many years of Bush and Perry at the helm of our state.
It’s particularly ridiculous to lump us all together as secession-loving, Perry-supporting idiots when one considers the fact that due to our ignorant gubernatorial election process, Perry won his current term with less than 40% of the votes. So I’d hardly say he speaks for the majority of us, seeing as the majority of us didn’t even vote for him.
Anyway, this has been bugging the hell out of me for a while, and I had to gripe about it publicly. Every state has stupid politicians that say and do stupid things. Point those out and rant about how stupid the politician is (or even how stupid people were to vote for that person), but it’d be nice if we all didn’t just slam entire states just because there happens to be an ignoramus in office or a small minority of morons screaming crazy stuff at the top of their lungs.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
How many of those present day secessionists even realize that the man most responsible for the existence of Texas was also the most ardent opponent of secession the first time around? Or have the public schools dropped the requirement for taking Texas History?
Oh no, they still teach Texas history and even require a WHOLE semester of it, but you don’t want to know what they teach. In fact, there’s all kinds of arguing about history text books in Texas right now, and … really, you don’t want to know.
I was so lucky to get out of public school right before all that standardized testing started and ours schools began to suck.