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So a bit of a departure of the current discussion (full support btw Jutsa, good work. I prefer A, but no qualms with B), but I'm curious to hear if anyone else has thoughts on the Texas GOP platform. I'm not from the states, so I'm not too sure how this stuff works, so I guess I'm looking for assurance that we (as NATO countries) aren't about to get pulled into an American civil war, and also that the more draconian stuff in there won't be actionable. It's a 40 page pdf, so I'll give a quick rundown of the stuff I'm most concerned about. Brackets are the bullet point numbers, not the line numbers.

- Reducing Supreme court power (18) and executive order power (20)
- Having a state electoral college appoint all state officials (34)
- Becoming a theocracy? (31, 108, 205)
- Actual sucession? (23, 33, 37, 224)
- Making carbon not a pollutant (40) and repealing a ton of environmental regulations (42)
- No Covid restictions (67-69)
- Some kinda revenge hacking? This one's just kinda funny (74)
- Abolishing taxes that disproportionately affect the wealthy (82 a-c, 87, 90, 91, 94)
- Funding homeschooling (101) with no required curriculum (102, 113), except that sex ed is not allowed (105, "individual schools"), including abstinance only. Also Don't Say Gay 2: Electric Boogaloo (106, 124)
- Climate change is "challangeable" (112)
- Abolishing the Department of Education??? (117) and also welfare (136) and maybe CPS (173)
- Parents choosing if their children get proper medical treatment (107, 134, 152, 153, 163)
- Okay, 143-146, 207-209, 213, and 215 is just general homophobia and transphobia.
- Becoming a police state (175, 179, 180, 187)
- 198-201 just seems like a massive facism dogwhistle
- Reject international law (272-273)
And then Resolution 1 just talks about how Biden isn't a legitimate president. That seems very civil war-y to me.

The whole thing is also laced with the expected anti-abortion and pro-gun stuff, and there's a bunch of stuff that I can't comment on because I don't know what it means. Not American. Funnily enough, they do support Taiwan, so that's a point for them I guess (edit: I've just noticed some stuff about how Palestine shouldn't exist right above that, so I'm rescinding my point).

Isn't the Texas republican party a super influential political group? I'd be concerned if a mayoral candidate ran on some of these, let alone the elected state government. I sorta just want to hear others opinions, because I'm really hoping this isn't as big a deal as it seems to be. Because this seems like a threat to international stability from where I'm sitting.