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I'm tired of learning that people are still being racist fucks and nobody is doing anything about it in 2023
I really hope this kind of shit is pissing people off as much as it does us. It sure riles me the fuck up, and at a minimum serves as a reminder to keep voting.
"Waaah, our gerrymander failed! This is so unfair, it was supposed to be used to suppress black voters! Not white voters! We want all our white people back, since they failed to properly police the black people like we had hoped!"
This is the shit that I think about when I hear people say “slavery and Jim Crow were a long time ago”. The selective blindness of people is just astounding
Mississippi is absolutely the apartheid model you can expect Republicans to look to for guidance on expanding apartheid to every corner they control
Yet another item to add to my ever growing list of reasons NOT to visit Murica.
Trump was projecting when he referred to countries as Shit Holes.
The GOP continues to be racist. Not that shocking.
As a Canadian, the more I read these kind of news about the USA, the sadder I become about the country and feel that these social issues will never be fixed
For conservatives the law exists to protect them but not restrain them while it restrains but not protect them. Can’t have the law in the wrong hands.
Is it bad to get rid of the electoral and just let the votes count and not include the gerrymandering?
Probably, yes. The idea is that people should have adequate representation. If 45% of your area if X, and 55% is Y, and it's a direct election, then you end up with all elected officials being Y, and X has no representation at all. The ideal districts would result in 45% of all elected representatives being X.
The electoral college is based on population, but indirectly. The way you could get around it is if states awarded electoral votes proportionately to the votes a candidate received, rather than winner-takes-all. But states have to choose to do that themselves; the fed. gov't can't mandate it. Some states are already doing that.
The electoral college was just a way for southern states to launder their slave votes through their plantation owners delegation, nothing else.
The fact we didn't remove it after emancipation was a catastrophic oversight.
...But the electoral college is population based. That's why California has 55 delegates, and Wyoming has 3. Slaves have nothing to do with it now.
The issue is that most states do a 'winner takes all' approach. If, for instance, Texas voted 49.9% Democratic, and 50.1% Republican, then all of their 38 delegates would be pledged to the Republican nominee (...and the state legislature would pass laws restricting the ability of Democrats to vote). That was how Trump won in 2016, despite not winning the popular vote. OTOH, Biden won the popular vote by a comfortable margin, 51% to 47%, but won the electoral vote by a larger 56% to 44% margin.
Kinda fucked that prosecutors are elected at all