Congress has approved legislation that would prevent any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an Act of Congress. The measure, spearheade…
Gee I wonder why they have no choice but to take advantage of the thing Republicans already take advantage of legally to win. Could it be because Republicans caused gerrymandering to be legal in the first place and fought for it every step of the way?
This is exactly right - of course, there may be some gerrymandering forced in, but often times a consensus is reached by sitting legislators locally to gerrymander local districts because it can ensure the political longevity of both the left/right candidates who do it.
Amazing to me that we would have “progressives” downvoting this comment - as if there’s real faith that the Democrat party has their best interests at heart, lol.
No, but the party backing one of the inevitable candidates does.
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Gee I wonder why they have no choice but to take advantage of the thing Republicans already take advantage of legally to win. Could it be because Republicans caused gerrymandering to be legal in the first place and fought for it every step of the way?
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/07/19/gerrymandering-republicans-redmap
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This is exactly right - of course, there may be some gerrymandering forced in, but often times a consensus is reached by sitting legislators locally to gerrymander local districts because it can ensure the political longevity of both the left/right candidates who do it.
Amazing to me that we would have “progressives” downvoting this comment - as if there’s real faith that the Democrat party has their best interests at heart, lol.
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You say gerrymander, I say “reverse republican gerrymandering”, but the result is an election that doesn’t have districts that look like ducks.