SUPREME COURT DECISION A DOUBLE BLOW

At first I did not believe what Molly Ball, writer for the Atlantic, said this morning on Steve Kornacki’s MSNBC program UP when she said that compacting liberals into one district makes it hard to elect candidates state wide; it should be a two way street. However, she is right. Republicans can pack liberal into city districts where they can elect a few delegates but that leaves most of the rest of the state the rural voters to them. A quick look at the red blue map shows that the rural districts are conservative. By packing conservatives into a small city district, thus concede the greatest number of voters of city districts to liberals, it still gives the numerical majority of statewide districts, without having the statewide majority of votes, to conservatives. Thus, they have stumbled on to a clever two-fold scheme to control state governments and state federal delegations with a minority of voters.

MSNBC talking head Rachel Maddow used this logic; she had the data, to explain how redistricting can help conservatives control the House of Representatives. I checked and she is right. Now the Supreme Court has allowed even more redistricting; thus, making the situation worse. If someone cares to crunch the numbers, this may tilt the Senate, into the hands of the republicans. Of course, senators are statewide office holders especially along with suppression of minority votes. I was upset over this radical courts ruling because of the civil rights implication. However, it wasn’t until my angst subsided that I realize what great new harm they have done to representative government (the Senate) as well—a double blow: one blow to civil rights the second to our constitution. I keep saying on this blog spot that the conservatives are winning because they are. The courts did this by taking the vote out of the hands of the people and giving it to the Republican Party. The conservative dictatorial government is falling into place with the state legislatures and governorships, the federal House of Representatives, the federal Senate, the majority of the federal judicial districts, and Supreme Court. The snowball is rolling down hill and may be too big to stop.