Letters to the Editor: Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo, why haven’t you resigned? How does winning a primary matter in America or any other Western democracy?
Kevin J. de León, San Antonio Express-News
As I watch the results of the election in San Antonio, I am reminded of a quote by Charles Dickens: “What we have here is not a revolution, but a change of the Government.” The change I see today is not a change of mind or values, but a change in party control of government.
This change is not due to the election of a new President, nor is it due to a change in the party that controls the White House, nor is it due to the election of an individual member of Congress, but instead it is the result of a shift of power from one party of a majority to another that controls only a minority of members of Congress.
The same party that controls the presidency (and the White House), controls the majority of the state House, the majority of the state Senate and the majority of the state legislature. In other words, in Texas we are a one-party State, with two-party rule.
Today, the State of Texas is not a one-party State. It is a two-party State, with one dominant party that dominates, and a minority that is disenfranchised. For eight years, the majority in Texas has been told they did not need to participate in governing the State, or even to vote in their State House and Senate, because “the minority party has the best interests of Texans at heart.” What happens in Texas should be a lesson for every Democratic-leaning Western democracy, because the Democratic-leaning Western democracies are in reality becoming more like the Democratic-leaning Eastern democracies in our country, rather than the free and self-governing Western Democracies. This election in Texas should be a lesson for the Democratic-leaning Eastern democracies as well.
It is not
