Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Politics - watch what you say

By chance a few days ago I decided to look at both the Chatham GOP and Chatham Democrat websites.

The Chatham GOP at http://www.chathamncgop.com is not very interesting. Some things about the upcoming county convention, and the rest is just difficult to find anything.

The Chatham Democrat at http://www.chathamdemsnc.net is more colorful, at least. However, one of the comments on the front page of their website caught my eye:

2020 is just the year that Democrats need to win. The next US census takes place that year, and that is also when the next congressional districts will be redrawn. Democrats can use their electoral gains in 2020 to Gerrymander Republicans out of the House of Representatives.

Have we not heard about Democrat complaints regarding Republican Gerrymandering over and over again? 

Later on the website, the Democrat website says

Building on and extending the historic legacy of the Democratic Party, the Chatham County Democratic Party is committed to Fairness, Truth in Government, and Equality.

Here we have a case study on hypocrisy: a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious belief or principle that one does not really possess.

Do not blindly accept what either political party is telling you, and require them (peacefully, of course; riots and semi-riots are not peaceful) to follow their stated principles.




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