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[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 4 days ago

Still, blaming politicians alone misses the deeper problem. Gerrymandering is not simply the product of partisan greed. It is a predictable consequence of a broken electoral system that rewards lawmakers for manipulating district lines whenever they can.

It's not broken, it's working as intended (to the benefit of the capitalist class).

If Americans want to meaningfully curb gerrymandering, they must look beyond partisan behavior and pursue structural reforms that make such manipulation far less effective.

Via what though. Policy changes done by... the very same legislators who don't represent their interests and are paid not to?

That was largely how the country began. In 1800, America had 106 House districts serving a population of just 5.3 million, meaning each representative spoke for roughly 50,000 people.

And in spite of this, it was a country committing genocide with legal slavery.

If Americans truly want to curb gerrymandering and strengthen democratic representation, they must stop expecting politicians to perfect a structurally flawed system. Instead, they should demand a Congress that once again reflects the representative vision the nation was founded upon.

Or they can follow a representative vision that is actually proven to work at scale, without doing genocide and slavery, like China's: https://news.cgtn.com/news/whitepaper/China+Democracy+That+Works.pdf (but this first requires Yankees obtaining collective ownership over the means of production and distribution or it's nothing but a pipe dream)

The "founding fathers" are more monsters than they are role models to look to. Yankees need to stop looking to the past for answers and accept that non-"white" peoples already developed the answers they need.