California’s move is the next salvo in what has become a nationwide tit-for-tat between Republican- and Democratic-led states in response to a plan to redraw the congressional lines in Texas to pad the GOP’s majority in the U.S. House.
I swear reality reminds me of WKUK skits in all the worst ways recently…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh8Geyc5VkQ
We can’t fight by the rules, we can’t go tit-for-tat, because that means they get to pick every battle, and they’ll only pick the ones they have a realistic chance of winning.
We need to do the shit that if Republicans match it, we’re still at an advantage.
I’ll say it again, it will never happen.
While I love the idea of fighting back against Maga, won’t this lead to voting being a waste of time in the long run? This just sounds like a new way to rig an election so that democracy is no longer practiced.
It’d be nice if there was a plan to reset the gerrymandering, or institute electoral reform, after this one time election so we can all experience democracy, as intended.
Yes, but no.
Our democracy is already hacked. Trump won by cheating. He’s currently, openly, trying to further cheat on the midterms
The system is fucked. You want democracy? It has to be rebuilt. You can’t just continue on after an authoritarian takeover.
So yes, this isn’t very democratic, but we don’t live in a real democracy. If we don’t do what it takes to get rid of the Fascists, it’ll only get worse
Voting will still be necessary. Gerrymandering can’t directly affect statewide races. But it can determine control of the House of Representatives and state legislatures.
The long term solution to gerrymandering has to happen at the federal level, but unfortunately the current Supreme Court is going out of its way to dismantle voting rights and protect Republican gerrymandering schemes. And congress isn’t going to do anything to stop it while Republicans are in the majority… a majority that only exists because of gerrymandering and voter suppression.
I don’t like it, but having partisan gerrymandering on both sides is better than doing nothing and letting Republicans cling to power because they get to play by a different set of rules.
What I read before was that the plan was to have the rules to congressional map only active if it’s to match another state in the union and it expires and has to be redone otherwise. I don’t know the specifics.
