Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer

This week’s worst political development is the fact that Texas elected TED CRUZ for another term as Senator instead of Beto O’Rourke (58.9%- 48.3%). As you might have guessed from my choice of title, I don’t like Cruz at all and I’m therefore baffled by Texas’ decision.

In a nutshell, his views on important matters are regressive and dangerous. I’m just going to pick a few of his stances (as per ontheissues.org) and explain why I feel this way:

• Death penalty for killing police officers. (Sep 2015)
  • I understand that the sentiment here is founded upon support for people who work in law enforcement. I feel that there are indeed officers who join this line of work out of a sense of duty and are truly brave and respectable in doing so; however, there are also those who are not so principled. Law enforcement as a whole is not immune to the abuse of power– there are officers who regularly abuse their power, and in extreme cases, they abuse their power at the cost of an innocent person’s life. With this in mind, I fail to see how one could make a blanket statement advocating the death penalty to anyone who kills an officer. I think the situation is far too nuanced for a stance like that (in cases of self defense) and honestly, where is his outrage towards officers who kill innocent citizens?
• ICE performs vital functions that protect American families. (Jul 2018)
  • ICE rips families apart and has dealt severe emotional trauma to hundreds of undeserving children and parents. I’m disgusted by the way we have treated Mexicans who have fled their country to live a better and safer life and I’m ashamed that the U.S. of all countries is this harsh on immigrants. The irony runs deep here.
• Pray against a court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. (Apr 2015)
  • First of all, there is a separation of church and state for a reason. While I do find that there is a valuable relationship between religion and politics in which religion often influences politics to operate under a moral imperative, I think that this sort of political application of religion is narrow and encroaches upon rights that all citizens are entitled to. It is a shame to me that Cruz is given the means to push his naive religious interpretations onto people who just want equality.

I could go on, but I also want to touch upon just how ridiculous Ted Cruz is as a person.

I say this only because of how socially inept he is (which this article speaks to in a very mean way that I don’t endorse but also can’t not laugh at), which might not be fair but given his political views I’m not gonna lose sleep over it.

Moreover, I thought Beto O’Rourke was a really thoughtful and inspiring candidate and I would have loved to see what he could have done for Texas. He caught my eye with his answer to a town hall question about NFL protests that is worth the watch:

Nice job going with the Zodiac Killer, Texas.