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Judge rejects ‘racially gerrymandered’ maps in Texas that gave Republicans extra districts
(www.theguardian.com)
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Nope, that's the kind of thinking that let MAGA rise and take over.
Dems need to accept that they have to fight fire with fire. They don't have lie, cheat, steal, commit treason, be in the blackmail club, be/support pedophiles, etc., they just have to b play Hard Ball.
That's what MAGAs did during their larval Republican stage. McConnell played Hard Ball better than anyone, while Dems just forfeited the game entirely. It's time for them to get back on the game, and ruthlessly play Hard Ball by every obscure and arcane rule.
The problem is when we have a party deciding the representation instead of the actual people in that land, who's to say the party won't do what parties have been doing since the country began, which is switch stances and adopt new values.
We don't want states deciding what the people want, we want people deciding what the states want.
We can fight the MAGA mind virus without discarding the constitution. When we say "the left and democrats need to fight dirtier" we don't mean doing the same thing that MAGA does, we mean we need to stop being civil and giving the GOP the chance to compromise on a policy level.
That doesn't happen either way.
And looking for a nonsolution to that issue doesn't fix it
That's how you get more apathy and less people voting. Yes democrats have a problem with playing nice and not getting anything passed but they also have a larger identity problem of what they stand for and why people should vote for them, this is way more the reason Kamala lost then soft democrats as shown by the lack of turnout. If democrats don't stand for democracy, what are they standing for?
Also the more prevalent this becomes the more they will use it against there left flank as well. The less there is a threat of a third party emerging due to gerrymandering, the more centrist the democrats can go and the more they can ignore the left.