{"id":43,"date":"2025-08-12T10:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/gerrymandering-the-latest-leftist-double-standard\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:23:37","slug":"gerrymandering-the-latest-leftist-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/gerrymandering-the-latest-leftist-double-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerrymandering: the Latest Leftist Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Would anything be left of the Left if the bums were divested of all their double standards?&#0160; The latest example is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/11\/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it\/\">gerrymandering<\/a>. It&#39;s OK for them but not for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">As Vice President J.D. Vance noted in a recent&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2025\/08\/10\/vance_blue_states_have_already_maxed_out_advantage_by_gerrymandering_districts_counting_illegals_in_census.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>&#0160;on Fox News, Democrats \u201chave fought very dirty for a very long time\u201d and \u201chave tried to rig the game \u2026 against Republicans.\u201d Under Trump\u2019s leadership, \u201cyou finally see some backbone in the Republican party to fight back against these very aggressive Democratic dirty tricks\u201d like aggressive gerrymandering, he continued. However, the only way to do that is to \u201creset the scales a little bit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhat we want to do is redo the census, but, importantly, we want to redistrict some of these red states. And we want to make the congressional apportionment fair in this country. Again, you cannot do it unless Republicans actually take some very decisive action in the months to come,\u201d Vance said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Albert King <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Py37G9qsfY\">complained<\/a> that &quot;if it wasn&#39;t for bad luck, I&#39;d have no luck at all.&quot; But I say unto you: if weren&#39;t for double standards, our leftist pals would have no standards at all. Am I exaggerating? By how much, exactly?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would anything be left of the Left if the bums were divested of all their double standards?&#0160; The latest example is gerrymandering. It&#39;s OK for them but not for us. As Vice President J.D. Vance noted in a recent&#0160;interview&#0160;on Fox News, Democrats \u201chave fought very dirty for a very long time\u201d and \u201chave tried to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/gerrymandering-the-latest-leftist-double-standard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gerrymandering: the Latest Leftist Double Standard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ponerology","category-political-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}