A new census is on the horizon, and that threatens decades of Democratic advantage in the election system. President Trump’s census in 2020 was a failure, bogged down by an insubordinate Secretary of Labor, whereby blue states were overcounted in the census. Additionally, the counting of noncitizens, legal or otherwise, was a way to cheat the system for decades by Democrats. Moreover, the Republicans are redrawing their congressional districts to attack the Voting Rights Act, which largely codifies Democratic districts in red states. Opposing this is Christian Post editor Richard Land, former head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Land wrote an article titled, “Extreme gerrymandering doesn’t benefit anyone long term.” The title, as a premise, falls flat. As a Republican, I benefit from the extreme gerrymandering. Moreover, the Republican Party is on the verge of achieving one party rule at the federal level. Americans, moving with their feet over the last decade, made it clear that red states were more competent than blue states, and therefore Republicans have more magninimous rule than Democrats. If extended to the federal government, than the entire nation would benefit from the gerrymandering.
But what about muh democracy?
Gerrymandering has long been a tradition in American politics, and both parties have done and do it. However, it has reached extreme proportions in the last half-century. It has reached the stage that among the 435 House districts across the U.S., it has been estimated that the gerrymandering has been so intense that only between 35 to 50 House districts across the land are truly competitive in the sense that they are realistically “winnable” by either party.
This structure clearly does not serve a truly representative government. Americans should demand that their state legislatures behave more responsibly and construct as many competitive congressional districts as possible.
When one party is so vehemently opposed to Christianity and engaged in weaponizing law enforcement to persecute believers, I prefer the game rigged against them. The government rewarding evil and punishing good, as seen with the Biden Administration, is not conducive to representative government.
If current demographic trends continue, states that trend Republican will gain 12 congressional seats in the 2030 census, and the Democrats will lose 12 seats. In addition, the Democratic Party has been “hemorrhaging voters” over the last four years. In the 30 states that keep such figures, “the four-year swing towards the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters.”Â
These trends do not bode well for the Democrats’ near-term future. However, Americans of all political stripes should take a dim view of “gerrymandering,” whether it benefits their party or not. Why? Gerrymandering thwarts the purpose of representative government. All Americans should work to make each state’s U.S. House delegation be as representative of their state’s political balance as possible.
Richard Land attempts to come across as right of center by arguing that the gerrymandering is moot. However, even with the Democrats’ current trajectories, the House of Representatives remains in the balance.
The extreme gerrymandering contributes greatly to the hyper-partisanship in the House, where you have the virtual disappearance of the “center right” and the “center left” because they get defeated in their own party primaries. In recent years, there has been virtually no philosophical overlap between the two parties’ congressional delegations. In other words, the most liberal Republican member has a more conservative voting record than the most conservative Democrat. This makes congressional compromise almost impossible, and it does not truly represent Americans’ political beliefs.
All Americans of goodwill should work for truly representative government in the U.S. House of Representatives. Americans of all political persuasions would benefit tremendously if this were to be achieved.
Ultimately, Richard Land let slip his liberal intentions is that he wants Republicans who are overtly left-wing, and maybe some Democrats on their level. Richard Land, after all, is one of the leading advocates for amnesty in Christian media. Moreover, he fails to demonstrate how people on the right will benefit from fewer electoral victories, a ridiculous premise.
Conclusion
While the Republican Party has been inept in Washington, at the state legislature level, there are some quality Republican legislatures in the country that demonstrate at the lower levels its not a uniparty. Part of the reason is that several states have Republican trifectas with no fear of losing power if they pass partisan legislation. This might seem to thwart representation, but removing the fear of losing to Democrats will make Republican concerns louder in their ears. Additionally, the thin majority means that enough weak Republicans will compromise on carrying out the popular mandate. A greater Republican majority dilutes the bad Republicans because it becomes less tenable to surrender on every issue.
The deck is getting stacked against Democrats, but we must never forget that this is the wages of their treachery against the United States, supporting a third world invasion at our southern border and tyrannizing the citizenry. An Republican unwilling to strike down the Democrat Party at its weakest point should resign in disgrace.
As for Richard Land and the Christian Post, they are weak men seeking to extend a liferaft to the institutional equivalent of a pitbull that’s already mauled three kids.
