Federal Courts allowed a Texas redistricting plan to stand this week. As I wrote I think this is the new Southern Strategy, but what do I know?
I've got to commend Norquist, Delay, and the others for this move though. It required tenacity, it required ideological fervor. But probably most of all it required a proper understanding of modern day politics. I noted that Sun Tzu's THE ART OF WAR should be thought of as an old school classic. Also a standout is Clausewitz' work On War. Sun Tzu is all about subtlety...about winning the battle through psyops before war is even engaged. Clausewitz is about as subtle as the Geto Boys. War is politics by other means...and conversely Politics is War by other means. There is no distinction.
And while I loathe war-like rhetoric ("black people are at war!!") largely because it saps the democratic spirit (hard to cast votes on troop movements), it sure worked in this case. The courts won't save the DNC (and by extension in this case Latino and black folk) this time. Unless they are made of chain mail I say it's high time to take the gloves off.