Make districts more competitive. No more selecting voters, guaranteed seats. It will result in less extremism and make representative more answerable to the people of this country.
District borders would use county borders. The new lines would be assigned to a commission in each state granted extra authority. Statistical algorithms can be used for the new lines.
It has to be a national effort.
Your thoughts.
Homer, this has always been a major problem, so we have to find a road to a solution. In some ways, courts have ruled against gerrymandering efforts. The Chuckleheads will oppose it and insist that it can be manipulated, but I think the problem should be turned over to a computer with certain parameters set -- merely as an advisory tool for governmental bodies which engage in re-districting.
The other problem is the role of money in politics. Warren Buffet says that he always gives a maximum of $10,000 to Democratic and progressive causes, because "those are the rules, and he wants to follow the rules."
THEREFORE. We must revise the FEC laws and regulations and enforce them to the hilt, just for starters. Dark Money PACs should not be able to amass tens or hundreds of millions to engage in special-interest campaign meddling. There should also be full disclosure of donors above some threshold between $200 and $1000. PAC Treasurers should not be allowed to subvert it because they have their own cornpone shitass views about "privacy" and politics. Everyone should be able to know immediately from where donations originate. You should be able to vote against someone else's self-interest, and the GOP gets a lot of Clutter-Brains -- many one-issue voters -- to support the insidious influence of concentrated industries and well-heeled special interests.
Since "they" took it upon themselves to overturn a long-standing court-decision on abortion; to stack the supreme court and deny Obama his Garland appointment; to engage in political dialogue without regard to the Truth; to elect a life-long criminal as president -- then -- they have made this a fight to the finish.
The GOP needs to be totally defeated once and for all. Gerrymandering should be eliminated. Large political contributions over a certain threshold should be either reported, or over another threshold -- denied.
That's the only way to restore human progress. People need to wake up, get off the fence, and understand they are either pawns or players, and that what they've taken for granted for so long -- if only since the days of the Civil Rights Movement -- is in grave jeopardy.
Some people who "think they're rich" and should support the GOP need to think again. They're nobodies. They aren't going to suffer a shift to a Progressive agenda. Tax increases will roll of their backs like water on ducks. They don't need those AR-15s -- and that's another thing! They don't need to bother their little consciences about getting to heaven in frets over somebody else's little fetus, and what they've done in the last seven years should send them all to Hell anyway.
"Oh! The little fetuses! God's Law! God's Law, I say! It's not your body! It's God's body!" and "They're tryin'' to take away our guns! Pry them from our cold, dead hands!"
I've lost my patience with those people . . .
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