Republicans are attempting to add 5 congressional seats in Texas at the public direction of Donald Trump to engage in gerrymandering. The party also seeks to gain possibly 3 or more seats in Florida by redrawing their state's voting districts to effect key areas of democratic strongholds, usually involving minority communities. The ultimate objective, as usual, is the diminish the power of votes from minority and other marginalized communities. No doubt there is a Republican push to do this in other red states across the nation.
The time has come for Democrats to do the same damn thing in the blue states. It is imperative, more than ever in this period of our country's existence for Democrats to adopt the Republican game plan and engage in redistricting in blue states. The Republicans are sleazy pros at gerrymandering to diminish the power of minority regions, where residents typically vote for Democratic candidates.
We all know Republicans are very "seasoned" in creating difficulties for minority voters in an effort to deter or prevent people from casting their election ballots. Their nefarious methodologies include the removal of depository ballet boxes in minority communities, or to decree people holding drinks while standing in long voting lines are committing a voting violation--just a few of the devious methods this party has invoked before. MAGA goons have gone so far as to patrol voting premises visibly armed with semi-automatic rifles to intimidate voters; then later brag with glee about it on social media. Additionally, do not forget the controversy surrounding Brian Kemp in Georgia, targeting Democratic voter registration and discarding applications for meaningless things such as not putting a period after one's middle initial on a voter registration form. Hat's off to Stacy Abrams for standing up to the buzzard.
We need more people in democratic leadership who will slip off their compromising shoes and strap into their combat boots. Their complacency with a lawless administration and trying to act civil amongst a bunch of wolves is going to get us destroyed in the mid-terms, and will aid in the Republican destruction of our democracy. The Republicans are methodical in devising evil schemes to crush Democratic votes, just as they are methodical in delaying the implementation of certain policies within the Big Beautiful Bill, so as these changes will not impact its MAGA base before midterms. These dumb MAGA idiots will fall for it too.
Now, it is being said Nancy Pelosi is going to run again, and I say "Hell no--PLEASE do not run again". We need Democrats willing to challenge her and all of the other Democratic career politicians content to engage in "let's play Congress". We need leadership who will use some of the same ruthless ammunition the Republican white nationalists utilize, because spongy nerf balls cannot contend with fully automatic munitions. The Republicans fight without rules; it is time to serve some of their sh*t back to them. We need new stand up leaders in the Democratic party like David Hogg, Beta O'Rourke to join proven Democratic leaders like Jasmine Crockett, Al Green (both a target of the Texas redistricting), and I could name a few others--yet there is simply not enough congressional people coming down hard enough on the Trump administration!
The Democratic leaders are not reaching their base, and apathy and resignation is rampant amongst our voters--and if the democratic leadership employ the same helpless "we are stuck in taffy tactics", we are not going to get the democratic turnout we need for the mid-terms. It is critical for the Democratic Party to start fighting this authoritarian white nationalist regime with boldness and to get in "good trouble". It is going to take glaringly loud stand up measures, disrupting committees, and the guts of Representative Al Green who disrupted the ever running from the Jeffrey Epstein files, Donald J. Trump, our convicted president.
The Brennan Center for Justice states in an online article "The Supreme Court’s 2019 decision in Rucho v. Common Cause greenlighting partisan gerrymandering has made things worse. The Voting Rights Act and the Constitution prohibit racial discrimination in redistricting. But because there often is correlation between party preference and race, Rucho opens the door for Republican-controlled states to defend racially discriminatory maps on grounds that they were permissibly discriminating against Democrats rather than impermissibly discriminating against Black, Latino, or Asian voters."
Section 2 is the part of the Voting Rights Act used to determine if states are gerrymandering to effect voter outcomes. In 2019, the Supreme Court ruled gerrymandering for party advantage cannot be challenged in federal court. This has opened the door for more unscrupulous actions in red states, always initiated by the Republican party. Well the time has come to get in the mud with this underhanded group of Republicans and fight likewise. Otherwise, are democracy has no chance in hell of surviving.
Trump is unapologetically stating to the news media he wants five more GOP seats, despite the Texas Republicans already having the majority. Also consider Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court Justice who despises his own blackness and is eager to vicariously turn white by accommodation, as this black conservative wants to destroy Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act . This so fits him as he is absolutely a MAGAnut, who gets perks from white nationalist sugar daddies who do not demand sex, but constitutional distortion.
If the Democrats fail to the be the majority in the mid-terms we can kiss our beloved country goodbye. Blue states--it is time to engage in redistricting to the Democratic party's favor, modeling after the calculated tactics of Republicans. Follow the leading of Governor Gavin Newsom who is proposing redistricting if Texas proceeds with its gerrymandering plans. Blue states, therefore, should carve out Republican voters into smaller districts or swallowing them up in primarily Democratic districts to dilute their votes. Because if blue states do not take the same action, the Democrats will likely go up the creek and over a cliff in the mid-terms.
I would like us to keep our democracy and our system of capitalism, but we are going to have to fight for it, and we all know the Republicans do not fight fair. It is time for the Democratic leadership to wake up, because it just may mobilize non-voting blacks and other minority voters to get their asses off their dream cloud of mental complacency, and vote this time. We have to address their apathy and Democratic leaders must address the electorate concerns as well. Working class, poor people, middle class, electorate service job holders, seasonal workers, farmers--all of these and more are voters; and also represent potential voters who have not been participating in elections. All who can vote, should vote. And if you loved our democracy which once had a system of check and balances, vote against authoritarianism.
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