Der Oberste Gerichtshof hat es den Republikanern nur leichter gemacht, Wahlen zu gewinnen, und es gibt keine Lösung
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/the-supreme-court-just-made-it-easier-for-republicans-to-win-elections-there-is-no-solution/
Der Oberste Gerichtshof hat es den Republikanern nur leichter gemacht, Wahlen zu gewinnen, und es gibt keine Lösung
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/the-supreme-court-just-made-it-easier-for-republicans-to-win-elections-there-is-no-solution/
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The law of unintended consequences doesnt care about the Supreme Court.
Everybody gotta vote
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There are solutions:
1) Ruthlessly Gerrymander all states you control.
2) When you have the Trifecta next time pack the court.
The solution is Democrats in blue states going all in on their maps to block the GOP in red states until we can change things with a massive vote & win Congress to stop them.
Democracy Docket had a piece recently that showed if all the blue states maximally gerrymander too, as they will also be unburdened from the VRA Section 2 restrictions, Democrats and Republicans will be virtually even in the district count once the dust clears. All of this comes at a tremendous cost to minority representation and democracy itself. That’s why it’s imperative for the survival of our species that if the Democrats have a trifecta in 2029, they 1) PACK THE COURT, and 2) Pass the For the People Act and ban partisan gerrymandering nationwide.
There are solutions. The question is, do the American people have the balls?
There is a solution called court packing and not enough people talk about it. Let’s change that.
Pack the shit out of that court. The power is too concentrated with so few judges.
Get out the vote, *everywhere*. Each district gained is only gained by thinning the margins. This could backfire, enormously. Flip Florida. Flip Alabama. Flip Mississippi.
„We’re not locked into this district with you. You’re locked into this district with us.“
The fact that a handful of unelected officials with lifetime appointments can just unilaterally alter the electoral landscape whenever they want is genuinely wild tbh. feels like the system is working exactly as intended by the billionaires who funded those seats.
oh, there’s a multitude of solutions. Don’t let them make you think otherwise
No solution?
Even before 2028, the Democrats can use the ruling to gerrymander states for themselves.
There is a lot of „wasted“ democratic vote in some districts that couldn’t be divided before because of the voting rights act. So now Democrats can divide out that vote to neighboring rural/suburban districts to win more seats.
The Democrats can potentially get something like 22 more seats this way.
[https://youtu.be/Mjkzh3Uzsmc](https://youtu.be/Mjkzh3Uzsmc)
As an added bonus, redistricting in this way will help get rid of some of the worst members of congress. Because they are in seats that win by like a 80-20 split, they basically face no challenge except during primaries–where the advantage of money and incumbency is almost insurmountable. So despite being EXTREMELY blue seats they are often held by very conservative members that won the seat 50 years ago. They also tend to be seats that AIPAC pours a ton of money into, since that politician will be there forever and primaries are hard things to raise money for–so AIPAC can be a huge bully and get a huge lifetime return on investment. The combination of untouchability and money, lead to really corrupt congress members.
Honestly, getting rid of these seats and having them be more competitive would be a great thing. But the corrupt dinosaurs in these seats are going to fight tooth and nail to stop the redistricting, so they don’t lose their cushy seats.
The SCOTUS is corrupt
They have to cheat to win because their policies are garbage, and the red states are worse off in nearly every way and prove it.
Nonetheless their ideas are not popular despite how loud the minority extremists shout, and despite how much media they buy up for spreading propaganda.
Taken to it’s logical conclusion: they appear to want a feudalist Christian caliphate ruled by a King, and counciled by billionaire oligarchs.
There comes a point where voting harder or organizing better is simply not going to get it done, and this is that point. It cannot be overstated what a devastating blow to democracy these unelected officials have unleashed on America. Because it wasn’t till the VRA did this country begin to live up to its promise that all are created equal. Prior to it, black representation in Congress for Southerners was simply not a thing and we have gone right back to that with this illegitimates unwinding of the VRA. It will be a generation or more, if ever, to undo what this fascist far right majority on the court has wrought on America. And we’re only halfway through this administration, so they ain’t done rolling back rights by a longshot.
Elections have consequences and the Left and anyone else that cares about rights and democracy, is going to rue the day for years to come for allowing Trump to not just win in 2024, but starting with the 2016 election.
Sure there is. The blue states do their own gerrymandering and it’s close to a zero sum game.
They literally say for many things like the EPA that they weren’t written specifically to do x y or z by congress so they can’t do it.
Then we have the voting rights act, a very specific law written by congress which they just say doesn’t matter anymore.
It’s clearly a corrupt court that has no actual decision making besides political outcomes
Oh, there ARE solutions.
The solution is get out and fucking vote. It matters now more than ever.
This is the answer:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/summary/00
Glaring weakness:
Doesn’t matter how “red” your map is if everyone votes blue.
Which is what we’re seeing in these “Trump” counties.
It’s an easy solution. The same solution required to reverse the supreme court decision that the president can do whatever they want. Unfortunately cursed to use the tools of the enemy to defeat them.
When a dem president gets in, they need to pack all the courts, make sweeping changes, and ignore the law like what’s currently going on. Except in breaking the law and ignoring the courts, fix all the loopholes, decorum based „rules“ and other problems exposed or created by the current admin.
Only problem being, dem leadership are controlled opposition and absolutely will not do what’s necessary lol.
The French are not the cowards that the Americans (the true cowards) like to think. The French knew how to deal with this type of thing.
oh, there is a solution. a painful one, as it requires you to stop consuming. unfortunately you are being held hostage by employment due to lack of social net, bad education and no leadership.
It was great while it lasted.
Y’all give up to easily.
FDR faced similar and won a supermajority. the 1960s civil rights were NOT a sure thing.
immense, overwhelming turnout is THE solution. not the only, but the lasting one.
then, we can see national indie districting, ranked choice, election holiday, term limits, 1SCOTUS per 13 appelate made up of annually rotating fed judges, end of cit united, financial/tech regs, immigration/gun reform, med/ed/eco/autonomy/privacy security, etc.
but nothing can happen until there’s such immense turnout as to outdo any of this BS.
America died with citizens united, you all just didn’t realize until now
I’ve got a dozen solutions tucked away around the house. Way more in storage. Dozens more solutions buried in the woods.
Here’s what you do:
Gerrymander anything and everything. Exploit every loophole. Do everything that would be unethical in a functional democracy.
Then when you get into power, hold people accountable. Start rounding up every collaborator. Get rid of the pardon. Lock down the boarders.
No solution… pretty sure the French had solutions to these kinds of problems.
The Supreme Court just made it easier for Republicans to win elections & ~~there is no solution~~ the solution is for democrats to grow a spine.
Nate Silver analyzed it pretty comprehensively and the good news is, assuming the Democrats are as aggressive as Republicans, it would basically be a wash, or a possibly Democratic gain. (https://www.natesilver.net/p/democrats-can-win-the-redistricting)
The reason is because the Democrats have so much more room to grow since they (believing in representative government) have gerrymandered relatively little the past few decades while Republicans (protecting billionaires at any cost) don’t have much meat left on that bone.
The elimination of the Voting Rights Act will hurt, but not as badly as many fear since the GOP have basically been finding ways around it for some time now.
And most importantly, if the inroads trump made with Hispanic voters disintegrates, the GOP is boned no matter what they try.
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