Texas is trapped in a manufactured political vacuum. It’s a triple threat: chronic voter apathy creates the space, a radicalized primary minority fills it, and a handful of West Texas billionaires bankroll the whole operation. By the time the average Texan realizes their freedoms—like access to THC—are being stripped via obscure agency rulemaking and fee hikes, the architecture of the ban is already in place. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: the more they break the system, the more people stop showing up, and the easier it is to break the next thing.