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The GOP Needs To Man Up And Gerrymander

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Gerrymandering is good, and we need more of it. It’s especially beneficial because mid-census cycle gerrymandering, currently being executed in red states, is likely to increase the number of Republican House seats significantly. Democrats object to this on purely moral grounds that they’ve already massively gerrymandered blue states, and therefore, this would hurt them, thus making it bad for Republicans to do it. We should laugh at them and shaft them as hard as we can.

Gerrymandering means creating sometimes bizarrely shaped legislative districts designed to make it more likely to elect a member of a particular party. Contrary to the conventional wisdom of unwise people, there is nothing wrong with doing that. It’s a moral necessity. It’s a good thing. The states decide on their own districts, and they should decide that the way that they decide everything else. That is, they should do it in the way that the winning political party wants – majority rule. Yes, they can leverage it so that the out party gets less representation in the House of Representatives. So what? We have to decide on district boundaries somehow, and we ought to decide on them through votes. And we should vote in our self-interest.

This is where the fake do-gooders start whining like little princesses. They tell us that we’re supposed to put politics aside. Except we’re not. What they mean is that we’re supposed to put the choices of the majority of voters aside and redistrict the way the whining people want us to do. I prefer we do it my way. 

We should be celebrating enforcing our self-interest, but there is no objective way to do it regardless. Some states have what they claim are independent commissions to draw the lines, and shockingly, to no one who isn’t a drooling halfwit who licks windows for the taste, these allegedly independent commissions are always taken over by the parties and used to their advantage. Why are we surprised by this? Well, we aren’t surprised by it – stupid, naïve people who have zero understanding of human nature are surprised by it, or at least pretend to be.

Gerrymandering is a political act. There’s nothing wrong with that. Politics is the way that we allocate the costs and benefits of........

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