>I don't know that anyone that lived through Enron and rolling blackouts in the middle of summer in California has forgotten about it, so I'm not sure why you t

>I don't know that anyone that lived through Enron and rolling blackouts in the middle of summer in California has forgotten about it, so I'm not sure why you think that Texas is unfairly being singled out. It's just that a cold snap back in 2011 prompted regulators to give recommendations to winterize which were prompted ignored Enron happened so long ago folks who couldn't vote then are now in their mid 30s. We did not choose to be born, and you do not choose how we parse the reality created when previous generations seized power. A contact once chastised me she doesn't hate Cuba, she hates Castro... I suspect if you replace Cuba with Texas and Castro with Cruz, a similar sentiment permeates the Lone Star State. I'm just one guy, and I can only speak for myself, but from my perspective as a Pennsylvanian who's voted in every presidential election I've been eligible as boomers and bitcoin boys bleat about how I'm lazy and ignorant when they only hear what they want lest they have a violent meltdown, Texas maintained it's own grid to make succession easier, thumbed it's nose at the feds, turned it's back on science, and that's the... reason... that Texans will be having a situation like this every year. Make no mistake: Due to climate change, events that used to come once a decade will plunge Texans into cold and darkness on the regular, since it turns out something and large and complex a system as a power grid is hard to maintain, especially as you experience brain drain due to a persistent lack of respect for basic democratic norms. This comment thread is not about singling any individual... state... out. It is about painting a vivid picture that if you repeatedly and violently insist that things been done a certain way in contravention of all reason, then will you notice you got exactly what you asked for and be given no choice but to submit to what you opted in to as those who made better decisions under uncertainly literally laugh out loud that you thought this moment would be any other way. (Or to put it simply: as they say in Appalachia: fuck around... find out.)