[jeffh]

> There are a lot of decent folks in a terrible situation solely because of their awful and incompetent politicians.

Politicians are elected. If the people don't approve, they have a recourse. People pile on Texas (or insert favorite punching bag of the day) because the majority (or plurality in voting) asked for these people to represent them.

[kstrauser]

It's more complicated than that when one party has outsized representation because of political tricks like gerrymandering. In the 2020 election, 90% as many people voted for Biden as for Trump. That's still a sizable gap but it's not like Texas is entirely single-party, and definitely not in the way that Wyoming is.

A huge portion of Texans are enduring an artificial catastrophe who did not vote for any of the politicians who caused it. Although I feel bad for everyone going through it, I feel especially bad for them.