From The Hill, “Shell-shocked Democrats are scrambling to pick up the pieces after the Virginia Supreme Court quashed a new map designed to help them seize control of the House in November’s midterms. The decision immediately eliminates four House seats that were expected to flip to the Democrats’ side in the Old Dominion. And it constitutes an enormous setback to the party’s efforts to counteract the Republicans’ redistricting push in red states around the country — an extraordinary gerrymandering war initiated by President Trump as he fights to keep GOP majorities in Congress for the final years of his second term.”
LOL! Shell-shocked is definitely one way to put it! While I applaud Democrats for showing some spine and fight, they screwed the pooch because they rushed to become something they are not and have a long way to go to ever becoming a party that fights — if they can even achieve it. Look, f***tards! Dumbass Democrats, in their zeal and newfound sense of vim and vigor to take on the RepubliKKKlan Party, have quickly discovered haste makes waste, and that becoming a party with enough ruthlessness to take on a nation filled with white supremacists, bigots, homophobes, and misogynists takes time and a wholesale reimagining of the Democratic Party writ large. Dumbass Democrats can’t just whip out some half-baked Hail Mary scheme in the hopes of a party reincarnation. RepubliKKKlans have spent decades closely and carefully honing their (warped) vision of America, messaging, political win-at-all-costs tactics, and killer instinct. Democrats have none of that, and as it stands now, there is no one in the wings who can deliver the Democratic Party from its pathetic state. The Virginia mess evinces that the party is a mess, and they’re not changing anytime soon. I keep saying it, but no one believes me. Mark my words, morons and mark them well: RepubliKKKlans have a permanent hold on this nation, and the only way to break it is through a new civil war. It’s just so obvious. You do realize that America is about to become an apartheid nation (sadly, not my original idea), right? Unlike the era before the Civil Rights Movement, Blacks will keep the “right” to vote on parchment, but their votes will be worthless, voting for representatives who can never win an election. So, “technically,” they’ll retain suffrage; it just won’t mean anything. In a couple of election cycles, Southern representation will be 100 percent lily-white. And no one will care! Welcome to stupid America!
Now, all that being said, if Virginia decides to ignore its Supreme Court’s ruling and move forward with the map approved by the voters, then I may reconsider Democrats’ fortitude. (But they won’t.)