Demokraten müssen Gerrymander durchführen, um die Demokratie zu retten

They need to save the whole world from the crazy king

Of states that could get legislature to approve it, would it make much difference? Virginia was huge, but I wonder if Blue states would gain significant seats. Whatever, good time to focus more on flipping state governmen.

The problem is that unilaterally disarming while the other side keeps packing the courts and maps is how you get minority rule forever. It sucks but playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules against someone who doesnt just ends the game.

How do you get back to a normal country at this point? Cause most normal countries don’t do this shit.

It is the only path

I mean, the other side has been doing it for decades with zero shame, so if the only way to keep things remotely fair is to fight fire with fire, Im not losing sleep over it.

Republicans knew exactly what they were doing when they schemed their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

What’s even worse is how Republicans are trying to justify it by intentionally misleading voters about the purpose of the law.

And this isn’t the first time that they have argued against protections for minorities in BAD FAITH.

Their goal isn’t to prevent gerrymandering of any kind, that much is obvious.

Their goal is to consolidate power by suppressing the vote and disenfranchising large swaths of democratic voters.

Section 2 is a historically significant provision meant to protect these voters from being unfairly sequestered and robbed of their agency.

But Republicans would have you believe that the Voting Rights Act is „racist.“

It’s an ass-backwards rationalization that they’ve relied on so often in the past to defend a status quo of systemic inequality and discrimination. A status quo that has historically worked out in their favor.

If they could say the quiet part out loud, it wouldn’t have anything to do with „election integrity,“ and everything to do with preserving a system that accommodates them and their desire for a white, Christian hegemony.

Republicans have been suppressing the vote for years while taking advantage of voter geography.

Their recent voter suppression campaign escalated in the aftermath of January 6th and in response to Trump’s ‚big lie.“

The GOP has capitalized on this post Jan 6th environment to sow distrust in our elections.

They amplify Trump’s lies about „rigged“ elections and have made use of all the conspiracy theories and baseless fraud allegations, all of the misinformation and propaganda that has emerged in recent years to deceive the public and advocate for a nation-wide campaign of voter suppression.

Republicans are also consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the unilateral say on how maps are drawn—no vote necessary.

MAGA can clutch their pearls all they want in response to recent changes in states like California and Virginia, but these redistricting wars are a consequence of the GOP’s extreme, mid-census gerrymandering schemes.

Democrats are just responding in kind—an effective, reasonable and common sense strategy.

For decades, Republicans have been exploiting the fact that Democrats are more vulnerable to gerrymandering. Republicans have also benefitted most from redistricting because they have broader control over state legislatures.

But the GOP has also tried other ways over the years to subvert the vote and influence election outcomes.

Republicans have frequently attacked or have even sought to eliminate election procedures and conveniences like early voting, mail in balloting, broader polling accessibility and extended polling hours, existing voting laws, automatic and same day voting registration, ballot boxes, ranked choice voting, voting rights, standardized election security measures, among other things.

Republicans try to disguise these voter suppression tactics as an effort to „protect election integrity.“ But they’re not protecting anything other than their own political ambitions.

And in recent years especially, Republicans have been exploiting the ignorance and distrust of their voters to empower themselves with more legal authority to challenge election results and obtain more control over our electoral system.

To make matters worse, Trump has been mobilizing trigger happy ICE thugs to US cities around the country where he likely plans to use this paramilitary force to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.

Then there’s Trump’s recent threats to „nationalize“ US elections. Yet another red flag warning us of the Republican party’s intentions to do away with democracy altogether as they continue down their path towards authoritarianism.

So much for „states rights“ huh?

Republicans have the gall to claim that they’re „protecting the integrity of our elections“ while making every effort to do the opposite.

Worse yet, other systemic problems impede free and fair elections too. Issues that Republicans have either deliberately ignored or have failed to properly address.

Like the implications of foreign election meddling and the awful Citizens United ruling.

Like campaign finance corruption and the political power and influence of billionaires.

If MAGA is truly intent on „protecting election integrity,“ they should focus on the myriad systemic issues that Trump/Republicans continue to exploit to their advantage instead of obsessing over baseless conspiracy theories.

Sadly, they’ve managed quite effectively to distract their voters from these ongoing efforts to erode the Democratic process by instead engaging them with culture wars, election denialism, conspiracy theories, and fearmongering narratives about rampant fraud and threats to election and national security.

Another one of their favorite tactics involves scapegoating immigrants, minorites and marginalized groups who they insist you blame for most, if not all of our nation’s problems, including manufactured issues like widespread voter fraud.

As it turns out, Republicans have always been the REAL threat to „election integrity.“

Biden should have packed the court

Gerrymandering can’t be fixed with a piecemeal state by state approach. The only way to change anything would be with federal legislation, possibly an amendment. Neither will happen so long as the party in power depends on Gerrymandering to stay in power.

Democrats can support Gerrymandering because they know that if the practice was outlawed tomorrow they’d net gain representation. So it’s not counterintuitive to say Democrats should Gerrymander to end Gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering is the opposite of saving democracy though. The real solution is to make it harder to gerrymander, which would be by expanding the house.

Many of them just helped push through unwarranted mass surveillance on Americans.

The 2-party system is the true enemy

Wait, you mean the Democrats actually fight for something? Nah, will never happen.

in a real democracy gerrymandering shouldnt exist in the 1st place