Friends, the basic ground rules of American politics may be shifting under our collective feet. That's because, not only are several red states gearing up to redraw their Congressional districts to give greater advantage to the GOP, but President Trump is calling for a redo of the 2020 Census, which could give even more seats to red states and fewer to blue states. Can you REALLY redraw your state's Congressional map whenever you want, even right before a midterm election? Maybe. Can you REALLY redo a Census, and exclude illegal immigrants from the count? Maybe. Republicans are testing the waters, and, if all their stratagems come to fruition, the Dems may find it very hard to compete in 2026 and beyond. Wouldn't that be a pity???
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-full-steam-ahead-redistricting-094600204.html
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114987220997209419
P.S. If we're prepared to go this far to stack the deck against the Dems, why not go all the way and carve out a few more red states too? Kentucky could be North Kentucky, West Kentucky, East Kentucky, and South Kentucky! Has a nice ring to it. If we play our cards right, we'll have more Republican Senators than you can shake a stick at, and plenty more than the dastardly Dems.
In other news, the battle to eliminate wokeness, particularly racial discrimination, in American higher ed is very far from over. Race preferences are so deeply engrained in the admissions and hiring practices of many colleges and universities that it will take extreme measures to right the ship.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/medical-schools-racial-discrimination?skip=1
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteWhen you get time, take a look at The Greater Idaho Movement. This is an ongoing movement pushing for the merger of Eastern Oregon (east of The Cascades), to become part of Idaho. Having been reared in Oregon, (and California), and knowing the state well, I have always been a strong supporter of that idea. It probably won't happen, but never say never.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Our imperfect America faces a wounded but not defeated domestic crusade to destroy it to make way for an imagined perfect future regime of totalitarian control by a benevolent elite. Vital to this is the intent to get even (equity) for past injustices. And that is integral to the practice of advancing members of oppressed and thus now exalted groups despite their often objectively inferior credentials
ReplyDeleteOn the face of it there is some justice in this but since it has been enforced for some 5 decades now, is it not time to consider if it has delivered the benefits which, it was assumed at its beginning, it guaranteed? I think evidence to the contrary has propelled both a step back from policies and renewed resolve to depend on the enforcement of truly equal opportunity.
Ray, not a bad idea, but we'd be much better off if Oregon became West Oregon and East Oregon!
ReplyDeleteJack, it behooves us conservatives to keep reminding Americans that we are the ones supporting meritocracy and race blind admissions and hiring, and it's the Dems picking favorites based on neo-Marxist ideology. We've always been on the right side of that argument, and the popular side to boot.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: An upstate NY freed of the amoeba on the Hudson would certainly be a redeeming change for this common sense region.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Our first Civil War manifested many developments unthought of before the war. In our second Civil War that may be happening again.
ReplyDeleteThat the far left plays all the amoral games to which it thinks itself nonetheless morally entitled , in every election, is self evident. Finally our President is hitting back and that in the face of unprecedented vitriol and attempted personal ruin of him. "On to Richmond" I say!
So Texas beat the dems to redistricting ; hooray for courageous Gov. Abbot. That recent dem hope of "purpleizing" Texas is obvious, I think it is supported by far left electoral chicanery and that a redistricting and a new, honest Census which discounts illegal immigrants despite far leftist outrage, would affirm that Texas continues to be an American stalwart. And let such as NY and Kalifornia resolve to right this "wrong" (i.e. any resistance to their unimpeachable will in any form). "Right merrily will we return their blows" (and in kind)!
It looks like redistricting could become a chain reaction of redistricting in many states, GOP and dem. Many different factors obtain. Electoral procedures vary in some ways from state to state and elections, which are the final determinant of the makeup of the House (excepting races tied up in court), of course have many dynamics at work in them. So let the chain reaction go forward in this, our second Civil War, this time between doctrinal rather than territorially delineated opponents. It may well be as terribly necessary as were so many of the theretofore unimaginable yet finally unavoidable measures taken to preserve the Union in 1861-65. This time the issue is the preservation of America from the destruction intended for it by a foreign ideology which has nonetheless found considerable domestic support for an unneeded "fundamental transformation" of our country.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: One proposal has Kalifornia being divided into five states! Perhaps the fall of communism in that benighted state would trigger the regionalism we saw after Eastern Europe was delivered.
ReplyDeleteJack, rejiggering the Census and reapportioning the House would be child's play compared to reimagining and redrawing the states themselves. We could have all kinds of fun with that! It isn't entirely beyond the realm of possibility. If Congress would accept the application of a new state, which used to be part of an old state, well, it could be a thing!
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