The base of support for Dems in the past several cycles has been in large cities, like Austin, Houston, Dallas and El Paso, and communities in S. Texas and the Rio Grande Valley, although the latter have been trending rightward. Republicans have enjoyed strong support in more rural areas.

I get it. I live here but in a blue oasis. Why don’t I leave? I’m sticking around and fighting these rural areas until we turn blue again. I know, it’s a hard fight. Maybe they will wake up?

Because conservatives believe in individual responsibility. Freedom dictates that the government at most provides information or warnings. Decisions are left to the individual. Conservatives accept that people will make poor choices and die but they have already accepted that outcome.

I also believe in personal responsibility but I believe the first job of government is to keep the people safe.

They also believe that the government should keep people safe. The solution space differs if you are anti-governance. Conservatives know this is a possible outcome of their approach. They just are not going to admit it in public. There is no universal standard for what government must do here.

The conservatives you’re describing have been gone at least a decade. The “conservatives” that remain are fascists, who prioritize their greed over all else and view human life as expendable. Particularly in Texas.

The decision about whether or not to add a flood warning system was made in 2017 basically a decade ago. Southern states in general and Texas in particular have always been conservative. How would a Fascist government policy response differ from conservative policy response?

Well, I was making a general comment about conservatives across the nation. The confederate slaver states have always been fascist, such as Texas. And they’re not pretending otherwise anymore.

The reasons they should never be in charge.

All they can say is God saved many people and told the others tough luck.

Horrible response but what can expect from the most inept administrations to ever occupy the White House.

We failed them. We should have had more safeguards in place. We'll continue to fail them as long as we have Republicans in power in this state.

So pretty much forever then...got it.

uvalde redux in many ways

Nope. Republicans don’t accept blame. They push it onto others.

I’m in Texas and I can see the failures. This could have been avoided but this is a stunt to privatize yet another government department that will cost the taxpayers MORE than the one person who should have been sitting at a desk but took the Dodge retirement package and they didn’t replace them.