Should Breaking the Rules Be Advantageous ?

Can anybody think of a sport, a contest, a match, or a game in which one of the participants gains an advantage by breaking the rules? Out-and-out breaking of the rules should be and usually is overseen and disallowed by the referee or the umpire. Certainly some will try to bend the rules to their own advantage, but it is very unusual, or perhaps even unheard of, to have someone admit to breaking the rules and yet argue that breaking the rules is “fair play!” Well, welcome to the Democrat’s playbook when we are talking about the 2020 census and the present legal protestation by the Democrats, vis-a-vis states where the Democrats are in charge.

As you are all probably aware, the issue is about whether a question about citizenship can be allowed on the 2020 census. Here the Dems admit to breaking the rules when it comes to enforcing laws that would tend to punish and deport illegals, and they are concerned that merely asking a question about citizenship will discourage these non-citizens from filling out a census form. And here is where the breaking of the rules leads to a big advantage for these rule-breaking states, for the way the standards are written now, it is the total population, not the legal number of citizens, that determine representation in the House of Representatives. The Dems think that it is right for a state to have more representation in Congress, because that state sanctions thousands, and perhaps millions of illegals living within its borders. (On 6/11/1929, the House passed the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, fixing the number of Representatives at 435. The U.S. Constitution called for at least one Representative per state and that no more than one for every 30,000 persons. Thus, the size of a state’s House delegation depends on its population.)

Think about the logic (illogic) of this: State A gets more representation in Congress than State B because State A has a larger population; even though State A has many more illegals than State B, it doesn’t matter. These “extra” representatives from State A can now argue (vote in Congress) for issues that favor the illegals over the actual citizens in State B. All other things being equal, State A gets relatively more representatives, and that means that State B gets relatively less of the total of 435.

So that brings us back to the original question: Can anybody think of a sport, a contest, a match, or a game in which one of the participants gains an advantage by breaking the rules? Ans: Of course not, as that would be stupid!

6/6/19