A Liberal Perspective on Gerrymandering the United States
Writer, provocateur, and severely intellectually and morally afflicted individual, Bonnie Erbe, has finally put pen to paper and divulged another piece of the puzzle that the left truly believes should be enacted to perpetuate their comprehensive annexing of the United States under the wing of the Democrat Party. Erbe obviously eschews any form of the rule of law, or Constitutional mandates, as do most from the left. She states, quite factually, that the U.S. has a formal history of using the census for political gain, and to not do so would be un-American. Her diminutive intellect, as usual, seems to be unable to distinguish between substantiated facts and fantastical cogitations ricocheting around the vacuous hollow within her cranium. Yet to her credit, she is able to capture those fantasies meandering around her head and put them on paper. God bless her. The following is her beseeching the Democrat Party to hijack the Census Bureau and use it to increase their reign over the United States Congress, and thus, the nation.
Democrats Must Keep Politics in 2010 Census; Gerrymander–and Gender-mander–Away!
March 03, 2009 10:55 AM ET
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
Get a good laugh out of the lead paragraph in an article in today’s Washington Post:
House Democrats will unveil a measure today that would separate the U.S. Census Bureau from the Commerce Department and make it an independent government agency similar in design to the National Institutes of Health or NASA.
Depoliticize the Census? Surely they jest! Taking politics out of the Census is like taking milk out of the cow or coal out of Newcastle or diamonds out of Tiffany. Politics is the lifeblood of the Census-without politics, there is no Census.
The Census is part of the spoils of victory for whichever party controls the White House at the turn of each decade. Gerrymandering-using Census data to create voting districts that artificially lean toward one end of the political spectrum or the other-is as uniquely an American tradition as Thanksgiving. The thought of trying to depoliticize the census is, well, decidedly un-American.
Every political interest group wants a piece of Census action. Hispanics and Latinos want to make sure immigrants aren’t under-counted. Religious groups want to make sure their members aren’t under-counted. I’ve even heard feminist leaders talking, since the November elections, about using the Census to gender-mander: to create voting districts with large percentages of poor, single and widowed women, who tend to skew Democratic.
So gerrymander away with the 2010 Census and spare us the theatrics of trying to look nonpartisan.
It is becoming increasingly exacting to distinguish whether or not the nescience of current liberal thought-smiths are expanding exponentially, or whether they are simply getting larger forums from once well-respected publications, as in this case, U.S. News and World Report. Writers, such as Erbe , and entire publications–are setting the criterion for uncultivated and uncultured exposition. Where do they get their audience? Unfortunately, as was manifested this past election cycle, one half of this nation obviously hungers for intellectual macabre.
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HELLO JIM, IT ALWAYS STARTS WITH SMALL MEASURES.