Futility
You write your Republican State Rep and State Senator to voice your opposition to a bill. The bill passes anyway. Repeat.
It’s just been so disheartening this year with the Texas Legislature, watching these horrible bills, some of which will effect me and my livelihood directly, pass out of committee and get passed. For many of them, it is yet to be seen whether they will pass both houses, but it all just seems so inevitable.
And the paranoid part of me fears retaliation someday for being so vocal. Like they’re keeping track of the liberals and they will be coming for us someday.
And it’s happening all over the country. Your state is probably passing the same anti-trans, anti-drag, anti-academic, anti-DEI bull. Polls show that these bills are very unpopular with people. That’s why you have the trans supporters getting arrested at the Kentucky Capitol, you have Tennessee representatives standing up and joining the protesters and getting kicked out…
So, it seems we are going to have to live in this world that they are creating, where I can lose my job for mentioning DEI in the classroom, where parents of trans kids are treated like child abusers, where elections are controlled by the majority party and results they don’t like can be thrown out, and on and on. Perhaps living under these authoritarian laws will lead to a massive backlash.
The good news is, if you read these bills and see the shear number of them, and most are poorly written like they were rushed - it looks like these bills are coming out of desperation. They have lost control and this is all they know to do to stop the way the world is changing. They are scared and their numbers are shrinking.











