Before you talk about voting Blue—or flipping Texas Blue—while complaining in the same breath about Wall Street greed, unaffordable starter homes, crushed wages, and a rigged economy, do five minutes of homework on who actually built the trap you’re standing in.
The death of the American middle class didn’t happen by accident. The fuse was lit between 1962 and 1965 when a Democratic Supermajority (up to 295 Democrats in the House and 68 in the Senate) passed a wave of legislation that hollowed out working families and handed the keys of the economy to banks, bureaucrats, and corporate giants.
You can directly thank the men who whipped, passed, and signed that destruction into law: President Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX), Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-MT), House Majority Leader Carl Albert (D-OK), and Speaker of the House John W. McCormack (D-MA):
The Trade Expansion Act of 1962: Stripped away American tariff protections and opened the floodgates to globalist «free trade»—giving corporations the green light to shut down American factories, gut manufacturing towns, and ship middle-class jobs overseas.
The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 («War on Poverty»): Built a permanent federal welfare bureaucracy that penalized marriage in the home, trapped generations in government dependency, and blew a multi-trillion-dollar hole in the national budget.
The Gold Reserve Repeal of 1965 (P.L. 89-3): Quietly removed the law requiring the Federal Reserve to back bank deposits with real gold—allowing big banks and Wall Street to create endless credit out of thin air while devaluing every dollar in your paycheck.
The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Act of 1965: Put the federal government and big banks in the driver’s seat of the housing market, subsidizing massive debt instead of supply and turning affordable family homes into a Wall Street asset bubble.
The Social Security Amendments of 1965: Handed American healthcare over to federal bureaucrats and corporate insurance middlemen, turning affordable local medicine into a runaway billing machine that devours working families’ paychecks.
The Higher Education Act of 1965: Created federally guaranteed student loans for banks—giving universities a blank check to hike tuition over 1,000% and trapping young Americans in mortgage-sized debt before they ever buy a home.
The Food and Agriculture Act of 1965: Shifted federal farm policy away from independent family producers toward permanent price-control subsidies designed for massive corporate agribusiness.
In just three years, that supermajority sold out American factory workers, inflated the cost of a home, turned a college degree into a debt trap, broke family healthcare, and let banks print away the value of your labor.
Every time you look at a $400,000 starter home, a $200 grocery bill, or a paycheck that buys less every month, you are paying the tab for what a Democratic supermajority built in the 1960s. Don’t hand the architects of a broken middle class the matches to finish burning down Texas.