The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Don't like living in a country with a gerrymandered House? Well, then, move!

    By jollyroger on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 4:32pm |

    A modest proposal.

     

    Some among you of an esoteric (and perhaps senescent) character may remember the story of that jewel of kundalini yoga, Bhagwan Rajneesh.

    (My friend "Nada", one of the many girls who revolutionized the sex industry upon the dissolution of Rajneeshpuram, used to say in her exotic South African accent, "Bhagwan was like heroin"-and she should know...but I digress.)

    Back in the day, Bhagwan, perhaps under the goad of needing someplace to park his 18 Rolls Royces, or maybe merely seeking privacy, led his adherents to the sleepy town of Antelope, Oregon. (population who-knows-what, but small enough)

    Empowered by voting laws that aggegate voters in geographically designated units, the Rajneeshis quickly took over the whole damn town, and hijinks ensued.

    What I'm driving at here?

    Since we terminally dropped the ball following the 2010 census, leading to Repugnant domination as far as the eye can see (or until 2020, anyway), can we not identify the fifty or so House districts where the Repugnant hold is slightly less secure, and organize people to move there?

    Habitat for Humanity indeed!

    Comments

    Did I say 18 Rolls Royces...make that 93!  (I sold Bhagwan short...)


    by jollyroger on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 5:15pm

    Are you asking people to come out of their comfort zone?


    by Resistance on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 5:41pm

    I'm hoping the desired result can be achieved by moves of under 10 miles, in the appropriately strategic direction...haven't actually unrolled the maps, district by district...that's A-man's job. 

    Then we get Jimmy Carter to build the houses.


    by jollyroger on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 6:12pm

    Sounds like a good plan.

    Could it be, the sequester is all about, making people move. to where the jobs will be?

    The democrats will move into the major cities, an already democratic stronghold. and the Republicans will grab the rest of the rural areas, so as to gain the majority?


    by Resistance on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 6:21pm

    Hmmm. Tent cities in the Walmart parking lots. (they already permit RVs to overnight, which is mighty Christian of them...)


    by jollyroger on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 7:01pm