Mr. Kipp wrote as a Texas Republican throughout the entire piece about #NeverTrump, and its social media implications on local and national elections. Though I do agree with the intended message, I do not appreciate his delivery, specifically the way he used #NeverTrump and a giant photo of Donald Trump as the articles only image to portray the idea that Twitter was some colossal news powerhouse in its own field, when the amount of people getting news from Twitter is actually quite smaller, almost 75% less, than its current rivals in Facebook, Google, and Youtube, according to Digitalnewsreport.org. Stating data on how important all social media was at playing a larger role in politics this year, since candidates are being followed across the board 6% more this election cycle, from the 10% of last cycle, would have been better than calling people "#NeverTrump-ers" to recycle his own title.
I believe that Mr. Kipp got to his real point at the end of the article when he states, "We as Americans focus to much on that fancy office 1,500 miles northeast of here, but we fail to see how those other contests below that race affect everything we do. Directly. Immediately." I could not agree more with this analysis, local government has almost always played a more powerful role in our day to day lives than national policies and movements. Local and State Officials usually have the last say in everything from the attempted BBQ smoke ordinances inside city limits (Travis County 2014), to the taxation of the land we raise our children on.
If we neglect the "smaller" ballets or offices, for any reason, especially if it's because they don't have as much social hype, we are literally saying that a Twitter hash tag is more important than our children's educations, our health care, and so many more of our most basis rights and privileges, the ones closest to our daily lives as a community. Though some would say our status as a community was arguable at best, so maybe this is just an unavoidable backlash of our own, documented and verified, lackadaisical attitude towards all forms of the governmental process.
We
as Americans focus too much on that fancy office 1,500 miles northeast
of here, but we fail to see how those other contests below that race on
the ballot affect everything we do. Directly. Immediately. - See more
at:
http://www.empowertexans.com/around-texas/the-problem-with-nevertrump/#sthash.gE11h0gu.dpuf
We
as Americans focus too much on that fancy office 1,500 miles northeast
of here, but we fail to see how those other contests below that race on
the ballot affect everything we do. Directly. Immediately. - See more
at:
http://www.empowertexans.com/around-texas/the-problem-with-nevertrump/#sthash.gE11h0gu.dpufdsdssdf
We
as Americans focus too much on that fancy office 1,500 miles northeast
of here, but we fail to see how those other contests below that race on
the ballot affect everything we do. Directly. Immediately. - See more
at:
http://www.empowertexans.com/around-texas/the-problem-with-nevertrump/#sthash.gE11h0gu.dpuf
We
as Americans focus too much on that fancy office 1,500 miles northeast
of here, but we fail to see how those other contests below that race on
the ballot affect everything we do. Directly. Immediately. - See more
at:
http://www.empowertexans.com/around-texas/the-problem-with-nevertrump/#sthash.gE11h0gu.dpuf
We
as Americans focus too much on that fancy office 1,500 miles northeast
of here, but we fail to see how those other contests below that race on
the ballot affect everything we do. Directly. Immediately. - See more
at:
http://www.empowertexans.com/around-texas/the-problem-with-nevertrump/#sthash.gE11h0gu.dpuf
We
as Americans focus too much on that fancy office 1,500 miles northeast
of here, but we fail to see how those other contests below that race on
the ballot affect everything we do. Directly. Immediately. - See more
at:
http://www.empowertexans.com/around-texas/the-problem-with-nevertrump/#sthash.gE11h0gu.dpuf
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