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Beto O’Rourke: Governors in [blue] states all say some variation of “You better watch out what you do. If you do that, we’re going to strike back.” I would love, and I think the country would love, if Democrats got off the back foot and stopped reacting and responding with “If you do this, then I’m going to do that.” F— that. Take the offense—go after these guys. This is the game now. There are no refs; no fouls are going to be called. There’s no consequence or penalty for Trump redrawing the maps in Texas mid-decade. Stop pretending like there is. Stop waiting for them to do it when clearly, that’s what they’re going to do if we’re unsuccessful in this quorum break. We have an opportunity with Democratic governors to seize the initiative and not just wait to be hit and then to hit back, but start that redistricting process now, in California, in New York, and any state where Democrats control the governor’s mansion and the legislature. Quit f—ing around and waiting when you know exactly where this thing is going.

Yep

They want to focus on one battle at a time, because they don't want to win the war. The Dems he's complaining about take most of the same bribes as Republicans.

We passed the point of "hitting back" being enough decades ago.

Doesn't matter if Texas pulls this off, every blue state needs to start proactively fighting back

Like Beto said, if so.eone doesn't want to fight, they can get the fuck out of office. All they're doing is stopping someone else from fighting.

We must do everything to tear down the republican traitor filth.

Gerrymandering has been an obvious problem for decades. The only people that didn't see a problem are those congress critters that got elected to one. ("Well, it worked to get me elected so it's obviously not broken.")

The shape of my very blue congressional district in a very blue state most closely resembles projectile vomit on a linoleum floor.

Democrats have had multiple opportunities to fix this shit over the decades, and instead they've just been using it to their advantage wherever possible. The Fair Representation Act has been our best opportunity to fix gerrymandering, and it died in committee in every congressional session since 2017.

I would argue most of the elected representatives at the state and federal levels have no interest in fixing gerrymandering, because gerrymandering is what got them elected.

I'm pretty sure if the Democrats started playing the same game the Republicans are playing they'd dominate. They need to grow up, put on their big girl pants, and get back to governing instead of letting the republicans steal their lunch.

I wonder how many Republicans would be unseated with rank choice voting....

The iron silo was erected in 1996 and we know they were working on it at least as far back as the '70s with Nixon, Ailes, Weyrich, et. al. The current conflict has not been contained within a culture war because the GOP does not want it to.

The redistricting war must happen next/now. Battle lines must be drawn out in open to reflect what the GOP has already implemented in secret in across the country. Bring it out in the open. Everything should be loud and obvious so nobody can hide from the reality of what happens next.

I've been screaming this since 2009.

Others have been screaming longer.

/signed.

Make it hurt. Stick it to the hilt and twist it.