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A judge blasted the Dems’ flowery ballot language as ‘flagrantly misleading’, failing to ‘accurately describe the proposed amendment.’
Philip K. Dick understood the power of words like few others. The American science fiction novelist once opined, “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”Just ask the Virginia Democrats, who won a redistricting referendum this week with language that would make George Orwell’s Newspeak crowd proud.
Of course, Marxists have been manipulating words for a long time. Their spirit guide, 20th-century radical Saul Alinsky, gave the left its marching orders in his 1971 communist manifesto, Rules for Radicals. Alinsky advised, “He who controls the language controls the masses.”
That brings us to the leftists who now control Virginia government, including the commonwealth’s artificial moderate governor, Abigail Spanberger. The language on their ballot question seeking to change the state constitution so Democrats can dominate congressional representation in the Old Dominion is a masterpiece in manipulation. That’s especially so after Spanberger and the left’s patron saint, Barack Obama, have spent their political careers declaring gerrymandering “detrimental to our democracy.”
This is good news for Virginia and the country. Gerrymandering is detrimental to our democracy and it weakens the individual voices that form our electorates. Opposing gerrymandering should be a bipartisan priority. https://t.co/yNj1karxHk
— Abigail Spanberger (@SpanbergerForVA) June 17, 2019“Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?” the referendum question read.
Wow. Of course we need to restore fairness in elections. I hate unfairness, and I certainly won’t stand for it in our elections. I was livid when liberals rigged the 2020 election to make an unpopular, doddering old fool president. That sure seemed unfair to me.
What? Oh, restoring “fairness” — to the Democratic Party, at least — actually means rewriting Virginia’s congressional district maps to steal four House seats, likely giving Democrats a 10-1 representation advantage and the inside track to taking back control of the House of Representatives in the midterms? Well, that isn’t fair. But the ballot language sure sounds fair.
‘It was Really Orwellian ’
It seems a lot of Virginians didn’t get the fine print.
“I know we are disappointed by tonight’s result. Evidently, a sufficient number of Virginians trusted the blatantly dishonest language the Democrats placed on the ballot to make our Commonwealth the most severely gerrymandered state in the nation,” Virginia GOP Chairman Jeff Ryer said following Tuesday’s amendment referendum.
Democrats won the maps battle by less than 3 percentage points. There’s no doubt the “fairness” language cost the “No” side some votes.
Virginia voters have spoken, and tonight they pushed back against a President who claims he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress.
— Governor Abigail Spanberger (@GovernorVA) April 22, 2026
As we watched other states go along with those demands without voter input, Virginians refused to let that stand. We responded the…Matthew Hurtt, chairman of the Arlington County Republican Party, told The Federalist this week that he had received several text messages on election day from concerned voters.
“They said, ‘I know how to vote in this election, but if I didn’t I would have been confused by this referendum language,’ Hurtt said. “It was really Orwellian ballot language.” --->READ MORE HERE
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