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Re: top left I didn’t like having to wait for it and agonized over it for weeks, but idk why the GOP-controlled congress doesn’t pass a national gerrymandering ban
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Anonymous 2w

It is because the GOP wants to gerrymander and doesn’t want to stop. In that scenario, I would want Dems to have a counterweight

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Anonymous 2w

the insane gerrymander is the reason shit is so gridlocked. its insane that out of 435 house seats only a few dozen are actually competitive. i feel like its one of the few scenarios we need to accelerate the consequences of gerrymandering to get everyone to agree to stop

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Heck i’m still agonizing over it. I worry deeply about the consequences this could have, but all options (incl. not voting) had bad consequences

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Atp I wish I lived somewhere like NYC so I wouldn’t have to vote on crazy stuff like this 🤣

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

If this all leads to a national gerrymandering ban, then it was worth it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

yeah i just think in the age of trump politics are too polarized to get popular support for giving your party less power. we need some return to normalcy in the culture, otherwise any gerrymander reform would blow up immediately. i will say this issue is pretty one sided with republicans being the worst offenders tho

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

Republicans are definitely the worst offenders here

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

It’s why you can bring up pretty easily tweets from Fox News hosts/MAGA twitter accounts praising Texas but criticizing VA

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

yeah and this is why the dem gerrymander is good. if one side can do it with impunity and have no natural consequence, they have no incentive to stop. now that there is a consequence many mainstream conservative commentators are shifting to “well all gerrymandering is bad” and making the same anti gerrymandering arguments ppl on the left have been making this whole time

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

A worry of mine (that literally just came up) is that the GOP will retake the VA legislature in ‘27 and gerrymander the state to their favor. In all my agonizing, I somehow did not think of that

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

the GOP would already do that if they had the chance and could get away with it. So like, I don’t think that’s really a concern. If it was going to happen it was going to happen anyway, they’d just try and justify it in certain new ways

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

The problem at least in VA is if the amendment failed, they wouldn’t have the chance. Now, they do

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