How conservatives in California — and nationally — could turn America around

The Hill (of all places) ^ | June 25, 2019 | Lewis K. Uhler and Peter Ferrara

[rxsid]

"Darned good illustration of Divide & Conquer"

Yup. It's exhibit A regarding how this massive illegal (& legal) immigration has flipped the biggest state in the union during that last several decades. It's coming to Texas now.

Conservatives and (R)'s in general in other, non-border states, might think they don't need to be as worried about illegal immigration overrunning their state.
We'll, if the (R)'s loose Texas, and there are no further "Trump's" who actually champion the middle class and the rust belt, it's a near impossible uphill battle to win the Presidency (& therefore fill the courts with originalists and non-activist judges)

Texas Population Projections 2010 to 2050

This graphic was compiled in 2017! Since then, the majority of illegal immigration is flowing into Texas. These numbers will rise fast.
https://demographics.texas.gov/Infographics/2017/UrbanTexasPt2

[walkingdead]

California is where it is today, due to voter fraud. The most fraudulent state, vote wise, in the entire country.

What CA needs is a good ole fashion cleaning of the voting roles, the reversal of motor voter, and some type of law enforcement with the will to clean up the fraud.

Most Californians are not the socialists you see in the big cities. As a matter of fact, I have a very hard time finding ANYONE that agrees with what CA is doing, and I live in the Sacramento area.

[walkingdead]

And ballot harvesting needs to be removed. You know, where truck loads of ballots are brought in that have no chain of custody, can’t be traced to any voter, and the people bringing them are partisan activists.

[going hot]

Repubs in Ca try to sell themselves off as rat lite.

has not worked, never will.

if candidates are not willing to buck the trend and state their intent up front, 100% against the rat agenda, they will not stir up any support from the thrice burned conservative (productive)voters.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The second graphic is a great case for reversing Reynolds vs. Sims, the nonsensical ruling that imposed the silly "one-man, one-vote" rule on all state legislative houses.

If we didn't have that, the Texas Senate could have, for example, one Senator from each county (admittedly, the Senate would be quite numerous, with 254 Senators), and the Texas House could be divvied up in a manner similar to U.S. House of Representatives, with at least 1 rep per county, but also weighted by population. For that, the House would have to be much more numerous as well. To prevent "county-gerrymandering", make sure the lege can only add, subtract or redraw counties by a 2/3 vote of each house.

Combine that with an electoral-college style process for governor, on a county-by-county basis, and even if Texas does go Democrat in the future, these ideas can at least ameliorate the worst excesses of the urban and suburban Marxists.

[central_va]

Free Traitor™ globalist Libertarians ruined the GOP. The Koch Bros run the GOP and that’s the basic problem. Conservatives and Libertarian and not really allies.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I don’t believe actual free trade, with people trading freely, is the problem. Sh*tty trade deals, such as with China, etc., are the problem, where we sit there and take sh*t, such as dumping, tariffs on our goods, and other crap imposed by our trading partners. I find Trump’s use or threatened use of tariffs useful to stop such things, as well as stop the invasion crisis on our southern border.

My ideal trade deal, whether bi-national or multi-national, would simply allow each party to raise a general tariff just large enough to fund a robust goods inspection process. That would probably be less than 5% ultimately. Congress would still have the sovereign power to raise other tariffs as needed to address problems of dumping, high tariffs on our goods, an exceptionally high general tariff by a partner, etc.

[central_va]

We need to get out of the WTO. I never hear anyone talk about that.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

True. However, the WTO actually resolves around 90% of our petitions in our favor. (Source: FOX news talking head)

[central_va]

The WTO was setup to enforce world wide mercantilism against the USA. If you accept that premise then the WTO is OK. To me this set up is EVIL BEYOND BELIEF.

[Yaelle]

We need a good strong earthquake pretty soon. Shake off some of these idiots, homeless, and illegals. And start over.

[monkeyshine]

I think it may be possible to put some red states into play - perhaps New Jersey because of the political climate there right now.

I don’t think CA would be in play unless the Dem base is disgusted with the nominee. But your point is taken. I reviewed some of these early polls that supposedly show Trump losing to Biden or Bernie and what stood out to me was that Trump was still polling 12% among African Americans and 33% among Hispanics - and one of the polls I saw oversampled Dems by a wide margin. Dems can’t lose any more than this.

He has a shot to split these demographics away from the Dem party and if the GOP can hold them it will be the Dem party headed to the dustbin.

The Dems are playing with fire right now. Not just in their tactics with Trump, but they are pushing every envelope and I don’t believe that their core constituents in these two demographics believe as the party leaders do.