Is it a 60 vote threshold or bare majority?

In this moment, I keep thinking back on my naive 2008-2010 self who was frustrated that state's rights were holding back the expansion of the affordable care act (and knowing its history in slowing civil rights, etc)

Experiencing that check on the fed gov in real time has been an experience.

I’m out here being my queer self and repudiating everything he stood for.

From the War(s) he actually fought in: Mexican American and civil war. You can guess which side he was on.

(He didn’t move to Texas until after the Texas war for independence. And yes, I know the Texas war for independence was also rooted in a fight about slavery.)

I take joy in the fact that

Yup. Thank you for amplifying this. The guilt and shame also puts up a barrier between the person and the people we need them to be in solidarity with. It’s a tool for division.

That’s interesting. Now I’m trying to think of another time where the counter culture was… evil.