A liberal in the wilderness.

For too many years I have been a liberal in an ultra conservative world. "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen.....". Texas is bad enough, especially during the G.W. years. But at least there were some Texas Democrats fighting the Good Ol' Boys in the Texas legislature and on the national political arena. Not very effective. The Reps, always afraid of the voters that they had to, from time to time, answer to, did everything necessary to sway the vote their way, including engaging Carl Rove and moving district bounderies one way or the other that would reflect a favorable demographic, and thereby ensure a favorable outcome at election time. But at least there were democrats and a few die-hard liberals in Texas, In Wyoming there are none. Just me and Roger. Living in the Good Ol' Boy State of Texas has not been the best of times for me. 25 or so years of my life, and all I have is a feeling of political opression. And that is the problem with those of us who are leaning a little bit left of the median. We are the new opressed in the United States today.