Joshua Rush
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71 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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It doesn't matter if we're hooked. If I'm going down, I'm going down swinging.
Not like I'm like noble or something. I don't want to give that impression too.
Among the many reasons that I really love working in Texas, which is like when we're when we're doing stuff, we're doing stuff because we can find like a level of unity around it. You know, in inside of the Democratic Party, we are beefing with each other about so many different things here in Texas.
We can kind of all come together and we can be like, well, you know, like we think trans people should should be protected. We think that they should have some level of protections. Therefore, we're against what a lot of the Republican Party does in that context. We're against school vouchers, right, in basically every format.
This is the really easy one because Republicans are trying to pass a school voucher scheme in Texas that's the largest – they just introduced yesterday the largest school voucher plan ever introduced into the Texas House, got introduced yesterday. It's very easy for us as Democrats to get together and say, well, we think that that sucks. We think that they shouldn't be doing that.
So, like, I love – I think being in opposition is fantastic because it gives you this this opening to say, like, well, like we may not agree on all of our preferred implementations on school finance. Right. I worked in California for some time. That's you know, you get really into the policy weeds when you're arguing and debating among progressives and among the left here in Texas.
I'm getting along with the furthest left members of the Democratic caucus and the furthest right members of the Democratic caucus. We've got a whole big tent because what they are doing on the other side is so insane and so bad that everybody can get in the same damn boat together and say like, all right, well, we think this is bad.
I love being in opposition and I love fighting in like red and purple states where we actually have to fight against them.
You know, Tim, my question to you would be, did that interaction that you had with a progressive activist make you decide to vote Republican?
So you got annoyed, and your knee-jerk reaction is just to fully vote against him in 2026. You are probably in the minority of Americans. I think that we should be annoying as fuck all the time, actually. I do, yeah.
Mostly towards Republicans, but I think that there's a lot of good reason to be annoying towards your Democratic representatives right now and make sure that they are being loud and outspoken against Democrats. You know, Donald Trump and his fascistic agenda. You know, I got a buddy of mine, my anarcho-communist friend, who keeps talking about what South Korean parliament members did. Oh, yeah.
Scaling the walls of their parliament building when they thought that their democracy was at risk. And, like, this is... What is happening right now is a four alarm fire to me. Like, I want our Democratic politicians scaling the walls at the Department of Education to figure out what's going on inside of there.
I want us in there when they want us out. Right. Like they are they are actively attacking our institutions. But like beyond that, not only they're attacking our institutions, they're attacking our children, our futures, our families, our food system and our flights. I want our Democratic politicians to be showing up in every single possible way that they can. Sending letters is great.
Showing up at the doors is great. But like, I want to see that our Democratic politicians see this as a four or five, 10 alarm fire in the same way that I do.
No, I see widespread political apathy in all directions. I'm an outlier. Maybe I should have led with that. I know certainly among people my age, Cam's age, what I'm hearing is overwhelming nihilism. And what I'm trying to respond to that every time with is like, okay. it's fine to feel bad. It's fine to feel nihilistic. It's fine to feel terrible.
Like, and at the same time, at some point we have to figure something out, um, organized.
Like an even split? I hear a lot of like, well, we're fucked anyway. Like there's, there's a very pervasive group, which will say like, well, we're fucked anyway, so we don't have to do anything. Um, There is another, like, very pervasive group of, like, America has always been fucked, so we don't have to do anything.
I find myself sort of in the middle here of, like, okay, well, if we do nothing, then we've done nothing. And if we try and do something, then we can do something, maybe. Or maybe I, like, maybe I fail and end up in the camps, but, like, then at least I tried. Then at least I can, like, go home. I go home at night with a pretty clean conscience, and I feel like I've actually done something.
I don't know if I could go home in my position every day and be like, all right, well, I did nothing. I'm going to go home and watch ESPN and go to bed.
The bad guys are winning. The thing that I also want to say is we had to get through Hoover to get to FDR. There is absolutely a little deep cut, but there is absolutely nothing to suggest that we are.
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