I say to you to think of it this way. The Democrats have twice put forward bills to ban gerrymandering. Every Democrat voted in favor of the bills. Every Republican voted agaist them
Not just "Democrats". Very specifically, Democrat voters in California, likewise by ballot proposition, 15 years ago. The system Newsom is asking us to dismantle is the very one we ourselves put into place to insure transparency and fairness in the vote. In fact we voted on this
twice, once to initiate the redistricting commission and then a few years later to make it permanent. Newsom is asking us to be as inconsistent and unprincipled as he is, blatantly reversing our opinion on things from year to year. I may get talked into this but I sure as hell don't like it. If I wanted to win
by cheating I'd just join the Trump train.
The entire premise is revolting. But the Democrats see the GOP re-gerrymandering Texas, effectively removing seats that could have been won in the mid-terms.
I'm absolutely against this type of gerrymandering. The Democrats see it as the only way to keep the upcoming mid-terms fair. And in a sick and perverted way, they are right, but the cost is our representative democracy.
It is appalling. The GOP stole a SCOTUS seat. The GOP has stole the House, any victory by the Democrats won't have undone the fact that the number of seats that are actually elected is vanishingly tiny.
Our Democracy is lost. We lost the war, so is there anything left to actually lose?