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In Reply to: RE: The problem lies... posted by pictureguy on November 22, 2020 at 11:58:31
...it's the other way around. From my perspective, gerrymandering is wrong regardless of which side it benefits, as is vote suppression, and we saw a whole lot of attempts at that this last election.
At this point, I'm pretty thoroughly disgusted by both parties, and certainly would not choose to vote for either if a viable alternative existed.
Follow Ups:
If you had the impression I favored ONE party of another, you're wrong.
California ia a terrific example of a one-party state and should be taught as an example of what happens when one party is basiically 'in charge'.
It is possible that a Computer Program could straighten out the boundaries and yield a MINIMUM border length solution with equal populations.
Getting everyone to buy into such a solution, is of course, dreaming.
Too much is never enough
I had in fact been under that impression, and am quite glad to be corrected.
As I said before, the same situation exists in Wisconsin but with the situation reversed. The stupidity I see here in the interest of party prejudices is beyond description, and I would agree wholeheartedly with your proposition to use a computer to redraw lines devoid of gerrymandering considerations, provided an even ratio of polling places to the number of registered voters was maintained.
There's only one way it will change, and that's if the populace gets so fed up that they vote out the people that are feeding the fires of polarization for their own political purposes. Unfortunately, I don't see much likelihood of that happening. Far too many people are too easily manipulated for that to happen, and I see the evidence of it all the time.
I wish I could point to a time or place where 'things' started coming off the rails.Most poepole don't know that ORIGINALLY the President was the single person (NO TICKET) who got the greatest number of electoral votes. The VP was the 2nd vote getter. At that time? You'd have several viable candidates for President.
The 12th amendment, ratified in 1804 changed that and made the Presidential Election a 2-fer.
Is the President ProTem of the Senate THAT important? He only votes as a tie-breaker.
The REAL purpose of the 2-fer would be to SET UP the VP to be the next president, thus confirming That Party in power for another term or 2.....As long as the governement spends OPM (other peoples money) change will be tough to come by.
NOBODY will answer from memory or without looking up the 8th and 10th amendments. That is key to understanding just how messed upstuff actually IS.
Much law fails that test except thru the most arcane legal convolutions.I LIKE the idea of somehow keeping the number of places to vote in proportion to the number of voters. Nothing worse than getting off work THAN standing in line 45 minutes......And still be a 30 minute drive from the house!
Too much is never enough
Edits: 11/22/20 11/22/20
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