The Red Elite and its doimination of American politics

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This is also on the Democratic side too it seems. 36% of Maryland voted for Trump. They only have 12% of the congressional representation. This is really bad.

I am wondering whether having a electoral commission that is non-partisan could work rather than having state legislatures do the job.

That is the nature of our FPTP system, it won't be changed without a complete change of government at this point and we wouldn't come out of that as one intact country after which point. Gerrymandering is just the reality of whoever happens to be in charge during redistricting, an independent entity could do I guess but there isn't anything stopping them from being biased either. Part of it is the fact the we have mandated majority-minority districts which work well since minorities usually live close together in large urban cities but what you get then is a district that will vote 80%+ for the Democrat every time which makes Democrats mad that it wasn't gerrymandered enough ironically enough.

Who is better democratically represented, the person who votes for the landslide candidate in an uncompetitive seat or the person that lost a competitive 49/51?

That's considered gerrymandering too, Democrats basically want their cake and to eat it too since without the majority-minority districts then redistricters will be accuses of diluting minority voting power and representation. Personally I think our government should be more like France and stop distinguishing people by races in our census period so this horsetrading problem wouldn't even exist.

...I find your answering a left-ish argument about right-wing donors including , IIRC , the Koch's with a right-ish argument of " That's REALLYOLD ! Now , talk about George Soros...HE'S the source of all evil and badness . Now move along , there's not thing else to talk about but Soros ' to - well , illustrate that everybody sees things from their positions at the table !
Just for one of your points , minorities do not nessecarily all " choose " to live together , past discriminatory laws (No longer around but still having had an effect) and rules/covenants , and discriminatory investment patterns (For example , during the post-WWII suburbanization boom) certainly had something to do with that .
I meant to post this some ways ago but couldn't at that time .









uote="Jacoby"]Not even close to 100%. Democrats do worse for the simple fact that all their votes are concentrated in small geographic areas, it doesn't matter that they win 90% of some urban area when a plurality is all that is needed. The US does not have proportional representation, it's FPTP so you have to have a dispersed base of support. A lot of Democrat seats are mandated(1965 Civil Rights Act) minority-majority seats and minorities tend live close together in urban areas so to claim gerrymandering when that's all they want to do for themselves really carries no merit. This goes both ways as there are many Republican voters with no representation in Democratic districts too but there is nothing insidious about it beyond your typical politics.

You have no idea what you are talking about with Wisconsin, teachers did not see their median incomes sliced in half or any of that nonsense. Only the most ignorant foreigner would ever say Wisconsin state employees are 'held in bondage', it was an extreme going the other way with public workers using taxpayer money to bargain against the taxpayers with legislators that that were elected by their unions and that is effectively what Walker ended. Now the state doesn't collect their dues for them, now they actually have to represent their workers instead of a bloated ideological union leadership and predictably a lot of workers aren't so enthused about their leadership.

The whole Koch brother thing is so old, you have to find a new Republican boogeyman. Those guys didn't even really support Trump you know? There is no equivalent to Democrat puppetmaster George Soros at this point whose fingers are in everything across multiple continents.[/quote]

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