A few words on the redistricting wars
Let's begin by saying this: Republicans do not believe in democracy. It is a dead letter. It no longer gives them or guarantees them the power that they feel is theirs by right. A party which began to preserve the Union and democracy, which prosecuted a bloody and ruinous war to that end, has now done a total turn around to side with the forces which it long-ago opposed. But this is nothing any of you don't know. I laugh when Republicans—especially Black Republican—haughtily intone that Democrats were the party of the Ku Klux Klan. Yes, Democrats were. Because Southern Democrats never accepted their defeat in the Civil War. But after the national party became, well, not fascist, the establishment Southern Democrats sloughed off their loyalty, preferring racism over anything else. And the GOP, which had already been moving in an authoritarian direction, saw an opportunity and swooped in, the party of Union becoming the party of Confederacy, while Democrats—the party of Confedera...
