7d ago

How Undemocratic Is Gerrymandering? Look at How Blue Texas Could Be if Democrats Drew the Maps.

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Just goes to show how gerrymandering limits free speech.
I for one would really like for us to move to an open source algorithm based redistricting as seen in this video:
https://youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44
- "If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy."
- Republicans would fight that harder than ending child marriages.
Republicans will do literally anything to win, aside from actually changing any of their decades-old shitty policies.
If non racist democrats drew the maps...
It is the most undemocratic act. Its only use is to manipulate the result of elections.
Yes ofcourse, in short the party elects who is allowed to vote for them....
We probably need an amendment to actually do redistricting fairly, but as long as one side is abusing the process, it doesn't make sense for the other side to try to continue being 'fair'. You're just bringing a fart to a shit slinging contest.
Districts should be just counties or groups of counties, based on population. You set minimum population and a maximum population and figure out how many what a representative gets. You can adjust once every census and that's it.
- Just devil's advocate, then these soulless pricks would play their games with the census instead to fudge their numbers.
  
  I'm pretty sure they also try to fuck with the census
  
  True, but I would think it would be easier to protect the census than 100's of congressional districts.
Sometimes I can’t believe this is actually 2025
How Undemocratic Is Gerrymandering?
Well yes, obviously.
Look at How Blue Texas Could Be if Democrats Drew the Maps.
I think that's the wrong way to think about this.
But yeah, Gerrymandering should be illegal (as it is in other states and frankly most of the world), and I hope that's the call to action Texas Democrats take from this.
edit: hmm, even if that works out there's the question of what to do with the already gerrymandered areas. Maybe I spoke prematurely.

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