The beating of their hideous heart

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Deep in the Tell-Tale Heart of the Texas GOP
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Imagine the official presentation of a worldview concocted by conspiracy theorists and an assortment of cranks and grumpy people. Conjure a document written by scribes possessed of poison pens soaked in the inkpots of Ayn Rand and the Brothers Grimm, caught in the grip of a dark dystopian fantasy of dragons and specters, in which everyone’s wrong but thee and me and we’re not sure of thee.

In the spirit of the Alamo, this is a work straight out of the 19th century with no option for surrender.
No, this is not some “Game of Thrones” spinoff. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the official 2014 platform of the Republican Party of Texas, 40 pages of unrestrained, right-wing bluster against you name it — women, minorities, immigrants, Muslims, gays, Obamacare, the Internal Revenue Service, red light cameras, the EPA, the World Bank, vaccinations — well, you get the picture. In the spirit of the Alamo, this is a work straight out of the 19th century with no option for surrender.

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More than 150 years ago, the state’s governor, Sam Houston, hero of the Texas War of Independence, recognized this same spirit of suicidal extremism, tinctured with bigotry and fantasy, infecting his fellow Texans as they prepared to leave the United States and join forces with the Confederacy. Houston, while no fan of abolition, warned against secession; that the South would be overwhelmed. In a speech on September 22, 1860, at a mass meeting in Austin, he declared, “You are asked to plunge into a revolution; but are you told how to get out of it? Not so; but it is to be a leap in the dark — a leap into an abyss, whose horrors would even fright the mad spirits of disunion who tempt you on…

“Are we to sell reality for a phantom?”

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God only [strike through]Poes [/strike through]... er, knows

http://billmoyers.com/2014/07/22/deep-in-the-tell-tale-heart-of-the-texas-gop/

[Vogon_Glory]

1. The Right-Wing Texas GOP Id Manifested

This sort of stuff in the 20th and 21st century Texas Republican Party platform is to be expected, especially since the Dixiecrats walked out of the Texas Democratic Party en mass in the 1980's and 1990's.

The Texas Democratic Party is well rid of those lunatics, but until Texas voters rouse themselves from their apathetic torpor and start voting to protect their interests, the Teapublican Id will be ruling and ruining the Lone Star State.

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2. What?

They forgot energy efficient light bulbs, Marxist toilet paper rationing, low-flush toilets and low-flow shower heads.

http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/may/2010-09-28/liberal-tyranny-destroyed-time#.U9bCELFCz2Q

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3. The Surrender of the Confederacy has not yet occurred with every secessionist in Texas.

http://civilwarhome.com/confederatesurrender.htm

When Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox he only surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. The Confederacy itself could not surrender because by now there was no "Confederacy." Richmond had fallen, the government officials had fled, and many of the papers had been burned. It would be up to each commander in the field to surrender his army as the news from the East reached him. The following are brief descriptions of how each Confederate fighting force surrendered.