CASTAWAYS: Gerrymandering protest hypocritical

Watching civil unrest on TV can be difficult if one tries to understand the issue that is central to the reason for the rage. A recent incidence of civil unrest has allowed for a clear understanding of what is driving the rage. It is racism and fascism. But who are the racists and fascists?

Those venting their anger directed at the Virginia State Supreme Court or the Supreme Court of the United States over their decisions on “gerrymandering” have tagged the decisions as racist and fascists. By doing so, they have revealed themselves as hypocritical racist enemies of democracy.

They ignore the fact that vast regions of the U.S. have been gerrymandered in such a way as to deny Congressional representation to large groups of voters because they are either the wrong ethnicity or the wrong political persuasion (all of New England, California …). Yet they continue to rage on hoping there is no one to recall the Third Reich Propaganda Minister’s quote’ “If you tell a lie big enough and long enough, the people will eventually come to believe it.”

This hypocrisy is addressed by the Apostle Paul when he stated his fear ... “that having preached to others, I myself become a castaway.” (I Corinthians 9:27)

DICK SHELDON

Coeur d’Alene