Texas was found to be the state with the fewest personal freedoms, according to the Cato Institute’s new Freedom Index.

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    11 months ago

    Sure, but when a conservative propaganda machine claims that even Texas is too authoritarian …

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      11 months ago

      Then they just have an agenda to say those freedoms were taken by Democrats, and that you really need more freedom via deregulation.

      First you sell the problem, then you sell your solution.

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      11 months ago

      I kind of did the same with The Heritage Foundation.

      They have a page cataloging every single instance of voter fraud they could find, and they’re up to… 1,474. Total. Since 1982. Regardless of party. In the same span of time, just looking at presidential elections, over 1.1 billion ballots were cast.

      This is an abjectly evil “think tank” behind Project 2025, which actively pushes the big voter fraud lie to push mass disenfranchisement, and even they could only find an astronomically small rate of voter fraud.