Gerrymandering, For or Against?

Dilligaf

I'm for it if it benefits Republicans

Extremely against it. It must be nice knowing however shitty you are at your job it's never in jeopardy.

Theoretically, it's obviously wrong. But there are certainly practical reasons to justify gerrymandering. The country has many far greater problems than gerrymandering.

Does it benefit me? Either for or against, depending

Term limits are a bigger issue. There should be no politicians whose career job is to stay in Washington as a senator or house member. It's even worse in the Supreme court where they are there for life.

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Hopefully it follows more Parish or geographic boundaries in the future.

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This - there should be no more than 6 boundary definitions for any district. Use County/Parish boundaries, rivers/streams, US/State highways, School district boundaries, and/or one survey line.

These gerrymandered districts are what gives the DEMs all those retarded blacks in congress like Waters, Lee, Johnson, etc. They do more to degrade the image of black 'success' than anything else.

It shouldn't happen but there is no way to stop it. Both sides do it...the democrats are just on the losing end of it at the moment. Demographics in every stats suggests that this won't be the case for much longer.


It is utterly ridiculous BUT the part where the interstate tied together two predominantly Latino districts sandwiching a predominantly black district is WHY it will never end. A latino candidate would simply tell the latino's in the district that the district was being re-drawn to eliminate latino voices and they would be out in force to stop it.

What is some true bullshite, and it is tied to the issue, is the fact that in almost every election democrats get more votes than their opposition BUT they lose the election. Again, it is working against democrats at the moment and the GOP has been a genius on maintaining that situation BUT it has never lasted in any nation for long that a minority ruled over a majority....and Republicans are quickly becoming a distinct minority. When you add in the fact that there are apparently 3 very distinct GOP bases today...Libertarian, moderate and white nationalists and almost no conservatives simply based on conservative principals the GOP is, despite its current numbers, in real trouble.

I think what we see going forward is several parties emerging...the Democrats are done and the GOP is so splintered it isn't viable.....

Gerrymandering and not using geography to draw district lines has done more to divide groups into two distinct sides with hard core representatives than anything.

These rep. are less likely to understand the other side and to come together in the middle on issues.