Galenskap i Texas

I Boston Globe läser jag idag en intressant artikel om den politiska galenskap som just nu härjar i Texas.

Suspicion has built across many parts of America during the administration of President Obama, giving rise to the Tea Party movement and fueling an intense wave of anti-Washington resentment. But the spread of conspiracy theories appeared to reach a fantastical peak in Texas in recent weeks with assertions that the sweeping military operation called Jade Helm 15 is a takeover plot hatched in the nation’s capital by the White House and the Pentagon. (—)

But the theories in this case — dismissed as “kooky” on Fox News — gained greater currency in Texas when the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, ordered the Texas State Guard to “continuously monitor” the US military training activities because “it is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights, and civil liberties will not be infringed.”

US Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who is running for president, said he would demand answers from the Pentagon about the exercises. So did several Texas congressmen.

“No,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said recently, when asked at a press conference whether the military was planning to take over Texas.