By Jay D. Homnick on 11.4.08 @ 6:06AM
Just in case this election has not been alarming enough.
As Doctor Livingstone famously responded, "Never presume." Most
of us tend to presume good faith on the part of opponents and
often pay a high price for naïveté. Just because you wait for the
green light to cross does not assure that the driver bearing down
will treat his red with the same respect.
Just in case this election has not been alarming enough, with
Democrats selling their phony tax cuts to a strangely gullible
populace, I invite you to join me in absolute horror. My Democrat
sources have just revealed to me a plan to hijack the census in
2010 and to move vast amounts of electoral votes from red to blue
states.
To start at the beginning, with each passing day Democrat friends
have been taunting me more mordantly. The polls have consistently
favored Obama, building their confidence. As they become more
convinced that victory will be theirs, they become less
restrained in their modes of expression.
This weekend I was briefly excited by the one-day Zogby poll
which showed McCain ahead by a point. I made the mistake of
citing this to a Democrat operative. He laughed mockingly, and
added this ominous line: "Not only is this election in the bag,
we have a plan to guarantee Democrat victories for years to
come."
"What are you talking about?"
"The census in 2010, brother."
Here is the scenario. Beginning in 2009, they will start planting
articles in the media about how minorities have historically been
intimidated by the census. They will interview people in black
and Hispanic neighborhoods who explain they never trusted the
government in the past. They were afraid their information would
be used against them, especially if they had relatives of
"intermediate" immigration status.
All that has changed now, will be the theme. The Obama
administration is reaching out to everybody, every citizen, to be
sure they are not disenfranchised. Huge grants will be given to
ACORN-like groups to help educate and sensitize minority groups
into the importance of participating in the census.
Another set of articles will appear, quizzing both census-takers
and residents. They will be full of heart-warming stories of
families who have been here for generations but only now are
standing up to be counted. It feels good to sign up for the first
time, now in the new America, the country that has matured and
finally blossomed into a true land of opportunity.
If anyone grumbles too loudly at these reports, they will be
portrayed as racist Scrooges who want to keep a permanent
underclass uncounted and unrepresented. This will be a poignant
reminder that America has not quite succeeded yet in fully
eradicating its discriminatory and xenophobic tendencies.
At the end of the day, the Democrat White House and the Democrat
Congress will find that many electoral votes need to shift from
red states to blue states. This will be particularly true in
states that also have a legislature controlled by Democrats who
can then rearrange the Congressional districts in ways that
guarantee their party a lot of easily held seats.
No one has the slightest inkling that this is in the cards, and
the McCain-Palin campaign never raises the census as an issue.
Yet when I heard this gleeful boast I was immediately overcome by
the sickening realization: this is definitely plausible and there
is nothing we can do to stop it in its tracks.
In truth, political paranoia has never been my cup of tea. But
even after drinking the reasonable brand, the tea still leaves
leaves. Failure to read them may leave the Republicans on ice for
years to come.
topics:
Election 2008, John McCain, Sarah Palin, presidential election
