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The Un-Elected Californian Who Engineered Virginia’s Permanent Democrat Majority
November 6, 2019 - Fulwar Skipwith

Revived as Curtis Yarvin, the artist formerly known as “Mencius Moldbug” wrote last month that:

“All serious people know there are no real conspiracies — nobody’s perfect, but in just about everything the experts are just the experts.

“Which is just the story you’d expect in any really first-class reality dome. No one is above stage magic, not even magicians themselves.”

- The Clear Pill Part 1 of 5: The Four-Stroke Regime

While a tough pill to swallow sometimes, especially for right-wingers who are almost constitutionally pre-disposed to checking the underside of buttered toast for conspiracies, this seems mostly true. The experts are just the experts, and they are annoying but mostly harmless when they do things like organize the local vegan insomniacs to sit-in around a butcher’s shop and shout “MEAT IS MURDER.” When they are appointed as “special master” by Federal Courts to re-draw the electoral map of a state on the other side of the country from where they work, it is hard not to raise an eyebrow.

That is exactly what happened in Virginia though, when a federal court ruled last year that Dr. Bernard Grofman could re-draw the Virginia legislative districts however he liked. Grofman is a professor at the University of California-Irvine, whose degrees in Mathematics (1966) and his MA (1968) and PhD (1972) in Political Science all came from that heralded Virginia institution, the University of Chicago.

Grofman is an expert of sorts. An old New Left campaigner from the halcyon days of “The Sixties,” he is cut from the same cloth as civil rights attorney and would-be Atticus Finch, Doug Jones, who was the left wing darling of the last Alabama senate race. Grofman though, eschewed the limelight, and recognizing that the “revolution” could be furthered more effectively by becoming an “expert” in voting patterns– he wrote books, including Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990, Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and A Unified Theory of Voting. And he waited. When the grand “March Through The Institutions,” yielded such an overwhelming majority of left-wingers in unassailable positions within the American state (like, say, the federal courts), Dr. Grofman was positioned perfectly to vanquish conservatism in Virginia. While the experts are usually just the experts, sometimes they are also the Cathedral’s heavy cavalry.

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https://identitydixie.com/2019/11/06/the-un-elected-californian-who-engineered-virginias-permanent-democrat-majority/