As far back as I can remember Texas politics was always dominated by the rural population. The large cities were Dallas and Houston and comparatively their population never exceeded the rural populations of the state's other counties.
I also took comfort in the fact that our energy grid was largely independent from other states; meaning that calamities afflicting other grids wouldn't effect Texas.
Starting in the 70s populations from northern areas and blue states started coming in and, of course, they moved into the cities. Now we have large metropolitan areas around Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, and Beaumont and the resulting surge of left-wing controlled political regions. Along with that came the baggage of left-wing attitudes and thinking.
With the election of Obama also came the Democratic control of key areas such as Harris County (Houston) and in 2014 the big push to green energy came in full force; so much so that now a quarter of Texas energy comes from wind farms. Sheer genius at work in a state that holds a quarter of the nation's energy supply!
Along with the influx of Lefties over the years came the building of "all electric homes" and they bought them by the thousands. I remember thinking: "What idiot would buy an all electric home when natural gas is widely available?"
Well, now it seems that all these conditions have finally achieved the inevitable. The wind turbines that provide a quarter of the energy have frozen; power is out in places too numerous to list because the people with the "all electric" homes overtaxed the "green energy" grid. There's snow and ice everywhere. My dog, having never even seen snow, exhausted himself playing in the newfound wonderment which has piled up everywhere.
Unfortunately, along with the white lawn comes a loss of electric power. People everywhere are freezing because they don't have heat in their "all electric homes"; I read about it on the neighbor blog. I had to go out to the shed and breakout my generator; something I only have because of hurricane season.
Meanwhile, my pipes have frozen because all these left-wing idiots don't know how to drip their faucets; they go out and turn everything wide open which drops the system pressure to everybody else resulting in frozen pipes for everybody. How considerate!
But if you really want to know just how wise these lefties are that now govern the cities all you have to do is go outside in the freezing weather and look at the skyline. From my house I can see the glow of the Houston skyline 40 miles away:
https://abc13.com/eerie-photo-of-sky...ages/10343210/
So now comes the question, would you rather have a left-wing greenie idiot in charge of your energy supply or a competent practical person?