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Cold take: gerrymandering should be illegal Yes it might be difficult to enforce but that doesn’t mean we should just leave it legal
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Anonymous 7w

Democrats need to exploit gerrymandering and win 80% of the electorate but won’t because they need a “strong opposition“

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Anonymous 7w

Could be alleviated through expanding the House of Representatives and every state having independent redistricting commissions. To your point federal legislation is a good step too.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

I mean gerrymandering is functionally illegal in California because they’re drawn by an independent party

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

facepalming so hard at this take that idek how to beging to address this

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 7w

No that’s true as someone who does gerrymandering for fun and also analysis maps done. California could be a 52-0 state seeing how republicans are usually concentrated in a rural area. The California map got 0 challenges from the gop as well

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 7w

I mean yeah, by banning gerrymandering on a state level, California is essentially giving votes away to republicans. So yeah I mean- it is kind of a “they go low, we go high” approach which will functionally just lose national elections

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7w

I hope Gavin holds true to his word of actually gerrymandering shit

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