Tur brought on Post political reporter Philip Bump to continue to promote the piece: “Alright, so impeachment is an example of this. The 48 senators – I mean, 12 million more voters, that’s a lot.” Bump replied in part that “you had the 69 million who actually supported senators who wanted to see him removed from office.”A few observations:
It’s unclear how Bump divined that people voted those senators into office with the express desire that they overturn the results of the 2016 election.
Minutes later, Tur wondered what could be done to prevent Republicans from winning statewide elections for U.S. Senate seats across the country: “So what’s the resolution to that? Is gerrymandering something that would help improve the situation? Is – how does that sort of divide promote consensus in the Senate or even in the House?”
Bump was forced to awkwardly correct her and explain the obvious: “Well, I mean, the only resolution – gerrymandering is not going to do anything because in the Senate we’re talking about states, right? You can’t gerrymander states.” He then delivered more tough news: “The only solution is for Democrats to appeal to voters in those states.”
- Lefties hate gerrymandering, except when they can do it.
- The Senate is designed to slow things down and to prevent big states from steamrolling small states. That's kinda the point.
- A good way for Democrats to appeal to voters in "those states" would be to listen to their concerns and offer solutions. That's too much work, though.
- Tur and her lefty pals assume they'll always be in the majority. If they were to think things through, they'd realize that may not be a permanent state of affairs. But again, thinking things through is a lot of work.
- And on the matter of thinking things through, Tur's undergraduate degree is in philosophy. No, really.
Tur is an attractive woman, no doubt:
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2 comments:
There are a lot of people that are book smart out there, but they can lack street smarts or even common sense. The problem with the liberals is that too many of them are all heart and no mind or not quite enough of it. And the problem with a lot of conservatives is that they're no heart, or not enough. I'm not going to continue with the Churchill quote, but it's pretty accurate, and especially now.
But I'm not sure as to exactly how much it can pertain to Americans. The world's been able to expel itself of most of it's lower two classes for over five centuries now. Both sides like gerrymandering when they can control it. Both like government when they have the control over it as well.
I'd love to get a degree in philosophy. Or psychology, but neither will really open up the job market for those graduates. But I could get a job in cable news. At least psychology has three sectors instead of just the two that philosophy would offer to anyone.
The dems have been out registering republicans by a wide margin for I don't know how long. Independents have been deciding the elections for quite some time now. But last year showed something interesting. A split in the millenials. Half of them are under thirty, and the other half is over that age. They don't seem to get along well anymore if half of them are calling the other half Boomers now.
If half of them have moved closer to the center than their younger more liberal fellow generationists, then the inevitable shift back to a more liberal nation as the youngest and largest of the gens ceases to be as liberal could be put off and for good. But the safety measures of locking up the courts for at least one entire generation was very swift. See, sometimes it pays to be all brain and no heart in order to get what you think you want?
A history major would be a refreshing change, but anyone who can see the past is about as welcome as someone who can predict the future (and as Heinlein said, "Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.") More's the pity.
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