Blue Owl Brewing
Connecting the Dots
RECEIVED Wed., April 8, 2015
Dear Editor,
Straight, white Christian males have been running this country for nearly all of its history. But now, demographics are slowly changing the face of the electorate, and these guys aren't happy about it. So, like the folks in those old, awful Westerns, they're drawing their wagons into a circle and shooting at anything that moves.
Consider the recent, thinly veiled anti-gay legislation in Indiana and Arkansas, the efforts to disenfranchise black voters in North Carolina, the anti-labor flap that happened in Wisconsin a few years back, and – here in Texas – the legislative assault on women's health, HIV services, and the DREAM Act.
Let me connect the dots: The Republican Party is behind all these efforts, and if you are anything other than a straight, white Christian male, you are a target.
The only way to fight back is to vote these guys out. What? Your vote doesn't matter? It does. What? The political parties look the same? Check out the party platforms. They are quite different. What? The Democrats are boring? Better to hold your nose and vote for them than put up with the stink the Republicans are going to make if they're left unchecked.
Straight, white Christian males have been running this country for nearly all of its history. But now, demographics are slowly changing the face of the electorate, and these guys aren't happy about it. So, like the folks in those old, awful Westerns, they're drawing their wagons into a circle and shooting at anything that moves.
Consider the recent, thinly veiled anti-gay legislation in Indiana and Arkansas, the efforts to disenfranchise black voters in North Carolina, the anti-labor flap that happened in Wisconsin a few years back, and – here in Texas – the legislative assault on women's health, HIV services, and the DREAM Act.
Let me connect the dots: The Republican Party is behind all these efforts, and if you are anything other than a straight, white Christian male, you are a target.
The only way to fight back is to vote these guys out. What? Your vote doesn't matter? It does. What? The political parties look the same? Check out the party platforms. They are quite different. What? The Democrats are boring? Better to hold your nose and vote for them than put up with the stink the Republicans are going to make if they're left unchecked.
Steve Saugey
