Prison politics

[BrntOrngStmpeDe]

when I see some of the threads on this board and particulalry when I follow national politics, I'm reminded of how prisons become so racially divided and even the non-racist eventually become racist.

You start out as a non-racist but must quickly link up with your 'own kind' in order to survive. but in order to be part of that group you must be all-in. You must do the bidding of the group leadership or else you are cast out to fend for yourself and quickly become a target.

Seems to me that our politics has gotten to this point. Why else would black baptist and catholic hispanics eschew their religious beliefs regarding abortion and gay marriage to vote so overwhelmingly for a democrat. BTW, i'm sure there are GOP examples as well (gun control, taxes, etc).

Our politics have gotten to the point that if you are not with us, you must be against. You are either all-in or you are OUT. In order to have any power, smaller groups must align themselves with the larger group and then swear allegiance to the whole platform despite disagreeing on many points.

 

[Crockett]

It all comes down to where they draw the lines in legislative races. Basically, the right wing Republicans in Texas, and I suspect elsewhere, drew legislative lines to contain all the heavily democratic areas or slice the democratic areas so small that they would have no ability to contest races beyond unexpected demographic gains. (Why is Austin sliced up into 5 Congressional districtics that stretch halfway across the state/) Thus the real races are almost all in the primary and in Texas you'd have to be wackier than Rick Perry to get flanked on the left. I don't live close enough to closely observe any races involving more than one Democrat, so I'm not sure how those shake out.