Allen West - Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death

PART ONE

THE BATTLE FOR TEXASS SOUL

CHAPTER 1

COME AND TAKE IT!

A Call to Arms

Attention all lefties! Join DSA NTX at QueerBomb 2018. QueerBomb is Dallas only LGBTQ2IA+ celebration that happens during Pride month, featuring no cops and no corporations! Our Queer Socialists will be tabling starting at 7:00 PM, with the rally and performances planning to start at 7:45 PM and the big march starting at sundown! Come live your queer fantasy with us; the dress code is wear whatever you want as long as its red. Bring signs, flags, drums, whips... really whatever you want to express yourself and queer solidarity. All are welcome.

Facebook post, June 23, 2018

Solidarity with everyone in the #ICEOutof PDX Coalition, including our Portland Democratic Socialists of America comrades!

#AbolishICE #Not1More

Facebook post, June 25, 2018

Join us at our interest groups next meeting, as we discuss build [sic] on our priorities, roles, and current issues.

Facebook post, June 26, 2018

Looking at these Facebook posts, one might assume they belong to an organization in some progressive socialist state on either one of our coasts. Given that theyre inviting comrades from Portland, one might guess that the organization is on the West Coast, perhaps in California. But these posts, in fact, are copied directly from the Democratic Socialists of America North Texas chapter, proudly recruiting under the tagline Yallidarity. At the time this book was written, they had 2,144 followers.

It might seem incredible to imagine socialists in North Texas, that bastion of capitalist growth. North Texas, she of the Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington metropolitan area that in March 2018 boasted a 146,000-resident jump from 2017, the most of any metro area in the United States.

Good old-fashioned conservative capitalism has taken Texas to the top. The most likely reasons people relocate to Texas are its resilient economy and relatively affordable housing, Texas state demographer Lloyd Potter at the University of Texas at San Antonio observes. Oil and gas production continues to be a major component in the states economy, but other sectors such as information technology, manufacturing and biomedicine are important sources of job growth.

Texass characteristic conservative capitalism has carried it from infancy to the worlds tenth largest economyindependently of the rest of the United States of America. With a gross domestic product of more than $1.6 trillion, its ahead of Canada, Korea, Russia, Australia, Spain, and Mexico.

Characteristics are different from traits. Characteristics refer to those distinctive qualities that make up an individual. A trait, on the other hand, is the inherited feature of an individual. Texass sheer size, great weather, central location, and bountiful natural resources of bubblin crudeoil, that is; black gold; Texas teaare traits. You cant hate on traits; just stand in awe of them. Its equivalent to being born with tall parents, a strong jawline, and a fat trust fund.

But the states characteristics enabled her to succeed even when her traits failed. Texas weathered the oil slump last year through employment gains in other industries, such as leisure and hospitality, where jobs grew 3.5 percent from 2015 to 2016. We added a total of 210,200 jobs over the course of the year.

The Threat of Political Calculus

Texas is clearly thriving. With its exploding economy and rapidly growing population, it may seem obvious that Texas policy is doing something right. But what the progressive socialist left sees in Texas is not its incredible success. What they see is an opportunity for continuous national electoral power. It all comes down to the vital political calculus of Texas.

In order to put this into a clearer perspective, we must break down the electoral college by state. The United States has 538 electoral votes in a presidential election cycle, and it takes a majority of 270 electoral votes to win. Those electoral votes are calculated by a presidential candidate winning a particular state.

As a result of the 2016 presidential election, the left is not exactly a fan of the electoral college because their calculations failed them. But the electoral college operated just as the Founding Fathers desiredthey did not want the most populated states to dominate national level elections. So, when the Democrats complain about Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote, that is because she won the most populous states. However, she failed to hold the states that have these past few years made up the blue wall. Like Jericho, it fell when working-class US citizens deserted her for now president Donald Trump, swinging their states red.