In the 1930s Saul Alinsky led a Chicago meatpacker’s strike. He was given photos of the company CEO having gay sex, in an era when making them public would have ended the CEO’s career. He didn’t use them but only because he didn’t have to.
“So far, so noble; but, if I had been convinced that the only way we could win was to use it, then without any reservations I would have used it.
What was my alternative?
To draw myself up into righteous “moral” indignation saying, “I would rather lose than corrupt my principles,” and then go home with my ethical hymen intact?
The fact that 40,000 poor would lose their war against hopelessness and despair was just too tragic.
That their condition would even be worsened by the vindictiveness of the corporation was also terrible and unfortunate, but that’s life. After all, one has to remember means and ends. It’s true that I might have trouble getting to sleep because it takes time to tuck those big, angelic, moral wings under the covers.
To me that would be utter immorality.”
The Texas redistricting plan, ordered by Trump, wants to steal the 2026 House elections for Republicans. California has responded hard and may redistrict in retaliation. In such a war, most any means will be used to get the win.