As a general rule, gerrymandered district is only “safe” from partisan rivals. What we’ve seen in GOP gerrymandered districts is some hotly contested primaries - even primaries against incumbents - that produced a strain of conservatism that is less interested in national partisanship and more interested in appeasing the district’s primary voting base.
If you think Dem primary voters are frothing fascists who need to be bottled up and kept away from positions of power, then Prop 50 is bad news for democracy. But if you think Dem primary voters are reasonable and rational, with the wisdom to select leadership that can effectively govern and improve the country, then Prop 50 is good news.
They did it first and the only way to fight it is to do the same with this type of thing. We will have no democratic power if we don’t fight election rigging
In this case, unfortunately, yes. It also cancels after the next census in 2030 and control is handed back to the committee. The expiration date is the only reason I voted yes.
Prisoners dilemma, but in this case we’ve already seen how the other prisoner (Texas) has acted. Should we take 3 years while they go free? Or make it 2 and 2?
It’s not good, but at this point, the President is pushing Republicans to redrawn districts to explicitly favor Republicans, which is explicitly illegal. He should be impeached for this, along with any Republicans who go along with it. But… With Republican control of all 3 branches of government, he will never be impeached and removed. At this point, fighting fire with fire is the only option left.
So no, it’s not good, it would just be way worse not to do it
So gerrymandering good if it’s Our Team™?
As a general rule, gerrymandered district is only “safe” from partisan rivals. What we’ve seen in GOP gerrymandered districts is some hotly contested primaries - even primaries against incumbents - that produced a strain of conservatism that is less interested in national partisanship and more interested in appeasing the district’s primary voting base.
If you think Dem primary voters are frothing fascists who need to be bottled up and kept away from positions of power, then Prop 50 is bad news for democracy. But if you think Dem primary voters are reasonable and rational, with the wisdom to select leadership that can effectively govern and improve the country, then Prop 50 is good news.
In the same way that killing someone who is about to kill you is good.
They did it first and the only way to fight it is to do the same with this type of thing. We will have no democratic power if we don’t fight election rigging
No, it’s not good. But we’re past caring about that.
In this case, unfortunately, yes. It also cancels after the next census in 2030 and control is handed back to the committee. The expiration date is the only reason I voted yes.
Prisoners dilemma, but in this case we’ve already seen how the other prisoner (Texas) has acted. Should we take 3 years while they go free? Or make it 2 and 2?
It’s not good, but at this point, the President is pushing Republicans to redrawn districts to explicitly favor Republicans, which is explicitly illegal. He should be impeached for this, along with any Republicans who go along with it. But… With Republican control of all 3 branches of government, he will never be impeached and removed. At this point, fighting fire with fire is the only option left.
So no, it’s not good, it would just be way worse not to do it