Hey, Liberals! How about we take a little break from the circular firing squad of recrimination over 2016, mmmkay? Are there problems in the Democratic party? SURE. But the Republicans have been able to hold together a coalition of robber barons and the very people they rape and pillage for two generations now. So, let's talk about the elephant in the room here: THIS COUNTRY IS GERRYMANDERED TO SHIT!
Congressional district maps get drawn in republican favor because most state legislatures are republican dominated. We progressive/democrats better realize that republicans built their power base the right way....from the bottom up. If we ever want to change that we'd better start showing up to vote in every damned election like republican voters do.
Greetings from Austin, the largest urban area in the USA without a home congressional district. Austin, one of the most liberal cities in the USA has 5 congressmen, only 1 Democrat. My congressman married into the Clear Channel fortune, which is why he is wealthy enough to be a congressman. He represents the suburbs of North Houston, and a wiggly snake that winds hundreds of miles into my Central-West Austin neighborhood.
I'm in Maryland, and our purity ponies (and 100% of Rethugs) would love us to unilaterally disarm and ungerrymander our state (which would, at best, add maybe 1 seat to the GOP). I say F.U. to them until ALL states ungerrymander. Funny tho'; they never seem interested in doing that.
Draw grids in the states. Lock the maps in a safe. Throw away the key. If some of the grids are desert, represent the prairie dogs. No more allowing political partys to redraw maps. Ever.
The people at the RNC invented a machineTo help them win elections when the voters aren’t so keenNow fairness and democracy will never more be seenThey’ve all been swept like chad under the RNC machine.
Refrain:Oh RNC, oh RNC how could you be so meanWe told you you’d be sorry for inventing that machineNow fairness and democracy will never more be seenAs we all get the sausage from the RNC machine.
Now everyday the candidates come knocking on the doorExperience, qualifications, they don’t matter any moreWith heavy-handed gerrymandered districts all aboutIt’s obvious to everyone that your vote doesn’t count
(refrain)
Now something was the matter, that machine it scared us soCuz Donald Trump crawled right inside to give the thing a goThen 70,000 voters showed up in some states that swingThey grabbed the crank and gave a yank and Donald Trump was king.
I appreciate your post but would say the turning point was in 2000 (florida)when Bush stole election and did so again in '04(ohio). The use of voting machines has been a complete disaster and we should insist upon counting, by "hand", every single paper ballot. When historians look back(if our species survives climate change), I believe they will say GWB regime was so disastrous the U.S. never recovered.
A very special fuck you the WI GOP for hiring a lawyer to consult during the gerrymander, making everyone involved sign a non-disclosure agreement, then claim attorney-client privilege to the press when asked about how the people's business is being conducted. How is that democratic, constitutional, or American in the least bit?
Do you have any background in law to substantiate your claims?
What you are claiming doesn't make any sense. The States have plenary authority to allocate their electoral votes however they wish. The states don't even have to hold an election and, in the past, some states have granted the governor the authority to choose the electors on behalf of the states. The "the clear wishes of their citizens" is a soundbite, not a legal criteria for allocating electors. The only criteria re: electors is that states must treat every vote in the state equally and an allocation by the National Popular Vote satisfies that criteria.
Now, now...
Let's not be a Debbie Downer about this. Isn't BAMZ!!! and Holder working on some stuff to reverse Gerrymandering?
Congressional district maps get drawn in republican favor because most state legislatures are republican dominated. We progressive/democrats better realize that republicans built their power base the right way....from the bottom up. If we ever want to change that we'd better start showing up to vote in every damned election like republican voters do.
The purity ponies are not pony like.
Thank you!
Greetings from Austin, the largest urban area in the USA without a home congressional district. Austin, one of the most liberal cities in the USA has 5 congressmen, only 1 Democrat. My congressman married into the Clear Channel fortune, which is why he is wealthy enough to be a congressman. He represents the suburbs of North Houston, and a wiggly snake that winds hundreds of miles into my Central-West Austin neighborhood.
I'm in Maryland, and our purity ponies (and 100% of Rethugs) would love us to unilaterally disarm and ungerrymander our state (which would, at best, add maybe 1 seat to the GOP). I say F.U. to them until ALL states ungerrymander. Funny tho'; they never seem interested in doing that.
You must be talking about my damn district. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
I will see your favorite and present my actual district. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
Draw grids in the states. Lock the maps in a safe. Throw away the key. If some of the grids are desert, represent the prairie dogs. No more allowing political partys to redraw maps. Ever.
Nope, Im TX-10, touches the Woodlands in the East, Austin in the west. https://upload.wikimedia.or...
BTW, F**k Tom DeLay for this gerrymandering.
(to the tune of Oh Dunderbeck)
The people at the RNC invented a machineTo help them win elections when the voters aren’t so keenNow fairness and democracy will never more be seenThey’ve all been swept like chad under the RNC machine.
Refrain:Oh RNC, oh RNC how could you be so meanWe told you you’d be sorry for inventing that machineNow fairness and democracy will never more be seenAs we all get the sausage from the RNC machine.
Now everyday the candidates come knocking on the doorExperience, qualifications, they don’t matter any moreWith heavy-handed gerrymandered districts all aboutIt’s obvious to everyone that your vote doesn’t count
(refrain)
Now something was the matter, that machine it scared us soCuz Donald Trump crawled right inside to give the thing a goThen 70,000 voters showed up in some states that swingThey grabbed the crank and gave a yank and Donald Trump was king.
(refrain)
this is one of the main problems with our system. if we can solve it, we can solve anything. if we can't, we will solve nothing.
I appreciate your post but would say the turning point was in 2000 (florida)when Bush stole election and did so again in '04(ohio). The use of voting machines has been a complete disaster and we should insist upon counting, by "hand", every single paper ballot. When historians look back(if our species survives climate change), I believe they will say GWB regime was so disastrous the U.S. never recovered.
A very special fuck you the WI GOP for hiring a lawyer to consult during the gerrymander, making everyone involved sign a non-disclosure agreement, then claim attorney-client privilege to the press when asked about how the people's business is being conducted. How is that democratic, constitutional, or American in the least bit?
Do you have any background in law to substantiate your claims?
What you are claiming doesn't make any sense. The States have plenary authority to allocate their electoral votes however they wish. The states don't even have to hold an election and, in the past, some states have granted the governor the authority to choose the electors on behalf of the states. The "the clear wishes of their citizens" is a soundbite, not a legal criteria for allocating electors. The only criteria re: electors is that states must treat every vote in the state equally and an allocation by the National Popular Vote satisfies that criteria.