bilby
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The problem being that Democrats tend to respond to this with "Texas should take steps to be fairer and more representative of her people", and Republicans tend to respond with "It's not our fault if Democrats are too stupid to take advantage of their power and make California less representative in ways that benefit the Democratic Party".Yup. If Dems had done in CA what the ‘Pugs did in TX, Dems would own the House right now.And if memory serves, California is non-partisan redistricting.
This is the fundamental gulf between left and right in the modern world; The left want to make things better for everyone by being fair, compassionate, kind, and even-handed; While the right want to make things better for everyone by allowing everyone to be as selfish, greedy and self-serving as possible, on the grounds that looking out for number one is the 'correct' way to behave, because nobody knows better than you what it is that you want to achieve.
The Democrats can't believe that the Republicans see selfishness as the supreme virtue, and the Republicans can't believe that the Democrats do not.
So they argue past each other, with the D's convinced that the R's can be shamed into ceasing their antisocial behaviour, and the R's convinced that the D's are actually trying to be antisocial, but are masters of concealing their antisocial aims behind a smokescreen of apparent desire for fairness.
(That's also the reason why R's are so prone to conspiracy theories. It's the only way they can square their certainty that everyone is as selfish and greedy as they themselves, with the observation that D's often do stuff with apparently selfless motives, such as promoting mass vaccinations in the face of pandemic disease).