Seeing Nothing 'wrong With A Bit Of Shenangins

EVERYBODY IN THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS who hasn't been living on Mars recently knows very well that the republicans control the government, and that therefore they redrew the congressional districts to favor republican voters, and to minimize the impact of minority voters. Everybody knows that. It was never intended to be a secret; the people who participated in it never tried to hide or deny their intent. Most Texans seem to regard the whole situation as normal; to the victor goes the spoils, and the opportunity to redraw electoral maps to suit the victors. What's wrong with that? It happens in almost every state in the union, and since the republicans made big gains nationally in 2010, they have essentially redrawn the congressional map everywhere to favor republican candidates, which means its going to be mighty difficult for democrats to gain much this fall. Its called "gerrymandering", after one of our less illustrious founding fathers, and we all accept it. Those opposed to it claim that gerrymandering ruins democracy by favoring one party over the other, no matter which party is doing the gerrymandering. The Supreme Court officially agrees with those who see nothing wrong with it; opponents failed to provide the court with sufficient evidence that the process was motivated by a desire to gain unfair political advantage, which is strange. since everybody else in the country knows damned good and well that the only possible motivation for gerrymandering is to gain unfair political advantage and to subvert democracy. Maybe the recent residents of Mars include our five oblivious conservative Supreme Court justices.