For some time now, the biggest ethics issue facing the nation, and wow, there are a lot of them, has been the increasingly flagrant contempt for democracy and basic principles of ethics being exhibited by a single political party—guess which—in its drive to gain sufficient power to make over the government, principles, ideology, society and culture of the United States of America. The clues that party and its allies in the Axis of Unethical Conduct (“the resistance, Democrats and the nearly completely corrupt mainstream media) have been revealing have been increasingly obvious, most flagrant among them being projection—-accusing Republicans and President Trump of engaging in what his Machiavellian opponents are actually doing.
A private discussion this weekend including Democratic House members from Virginia and Congressional Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York was leaked to the New York Times by several participants. According to the Times, the participants expressed their fury at the Virginia Supreme Court, as if it was the bi-partisan majority of judges who were at fault for the election-rigging scheme the party had tried to inflict on Virginians. Part of the discussion centered on what the Times called “a bank-shot proposal to redraw the congressional lines anyway.”
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“I’m afraid to read the reader comments.”
Surprisingly, not that bad. Quite a number are calling out democrats for their shadiness.
I think this proposal is logistically impossible, given the timing. But imagine if the timing were better — I think it then becomes reasonably likely they might attempt it, although I don’t think enough of the Democrats would be on board to attempt such a transparently partisan destruction of the supposedly neutral court.
This, ultimately, is where “by any means necessary” inevitably leads — proposals which would draw universal horror and opprobrium if it were offered by anyone other than Democrats. Yet the media in general and Times in particular blandly refer to it not as an attempted coup d’etat but a policy “bank-shot.”
Republicans and independents should take note. If you don’t want to wind up in reeducation camps and on the short end of a social credit scheme due to insufficient loyalty to the Left, you should immediately find a way to get them out of power. They have set the rules, which is to say, there are none except for their enemies. They will lie, cheat, steal, trash the rule of law and the Constitutional guarantee of a republican form of government if that’s what it takes to get the power they crave.
This is not the end of it. They will think of something, even if it comes to ignoring the court and implementing the map anyway. If they do that and manage to win sufficient seats in the mid-terms to take the House, there is little that could be done before they find a way to codify it “legally.” With the left, legality is little more than a skinsuit for them to wear around so they can claim legitimacy.
Govern yourselves accordingly.
Well stated, Glenn…a great response to a great post by our host. I think of all the times I’ve heard stories told about how criminals come up with insanely creative and twisted ways to steal and scam their way to getting what they desire. I often cringe at the fact that, while I hate the end result, I have to admire their ingenuity and creativity. I think to myself, “My mind just can’t think of those things.”
This idea of forcing the VA Supreme Court into full retirement – whether or not it has any real chance of success – reminds me of those stories.
(To borrow from A.M. Golden)…
Now I’m not saying the Democrats in the Virginia legislature are criminals…
Theses slimy tactics have been par for the course for way too long, and for the longest time the GOP was content to surrender first and pretend to fight afterwards. They were even content to be the minority, since it meant they had to do less. It’s gotten past being a cozy minority that doesn’t do much, though. The Democratic Party is now attempting in earnest to wipe the GOP off the map through redistricting and manipulated demographics. Bush the younger was perfectly ok with that, and I think Romney would have been too. After all, they didn’t want to be called racist. Trump is not, and neither are the governors of the GOP states now. If the blue states can make a point of putting a blue city in every district or breaking up rural areas, then red states can break up cities between districts and otherwise dilute the power of the opposition. Representation goes by district, not color.
As for assassination and outright lying, well, two can play at that game. Sir Arthur Harris said something to the effect that it was illogical for the Germans to assume that they could bomb everyone else and then not get bombed themselves. That’s not to say that the Hamburg and Dresden raids were objectively all right, they were brutal acts of total war. However, after the Blitz and the bombing of all Europe, the Germans really were not in a position to accuse anyone else of brutality. I also won’t pretend that we didn’t target Zarqawi in Iraq, bin Laden in Pakistan, and most recently Khameini in Iran, and that especially bin Laden was an extrajudicial killing. However, given what these individuals did, I think the proper response is “so what?” In war the way to win is to kill the enemy and break his stuff. I don’t think we want to take ourselves into a civil war, but we almost got there in 2020, and if one side keeps acting like that, the other side is no longer prepared to suffer for it.
You already know this, but Bomber Harris watched from his window (or maybe balcony) as the Germans bombed London and told the man next to him, “The Germans are sowing the wind…”
Oops…almost forgot…
…and I’m not saying the Democrats are Nazis…
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Did+Arthur+Harris+say+that+the+Germans+were+sowing+the+wind%3f&&mid=521783B9154D17FD7557521783B9154D17FD7557&churl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fchannel%2fUCSjCxo2tKPIVVVu5l-Aa7PA&FORM=VRDGAR
How did the Democrats get so bad so fast? Hillary Clinton reading Saul Alinsky?
I think they were lying in wait for something like COVID, and they used that to springboard themselves from “the ends justify the means” to the far more sinister, “by any means necessary.”