We’re back to one party rule again. All of these tricks the GOP play to gerrymander the state rob the people of democracy also affects people nationally. The GOP is way over represented in a purple state and in the US Congress. I doubt the GOP House would have a majority if it weren’t for NC GOP gerrymandering.
Mr. Mills, you've been involved in politics long enough to not be surprised that Republicans will lie, cheat, and steal to win any election; it is their way. The GOP agenda rests on one document and one fact. The fact is that their strategy of being the White People's Party will not win elections and the document is Lewis Powell's 1971 memo on how to overthrow the Republic. Shortly after he presented his sedition plan Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon appointed him to the Supreme Court there by embedding an anti-integration seditionist in our highest court.Your exasperation at their skulduggery cedes them too much legitimacy. I think you can move more people by calling them what they are, anti-American seditionists.
The voters STILL have the agency to choose who they want to lead, districts be damned. They just have to be convinced to use it. And to vote for their own interests. And it’s the last bit that’s problematic. Somebody way smarter than me once said “It’s easy to get half the people to vote against their own interests, if you can convince them that they’ve voting against the interests of the OTHER half.” Which is something that Republicans have excelled for over 40 years. Figure out how to remove that blockage and the rest is easy.
Republicans have been cheating since 2010! Remember operation red line?? Gerrymandering began at that time & has continued to worsen. Bishop Barber with moral mondays & indivisible did a great protest & speach about this in the past few days.
I can't help but feel that this is preordained. Each time the GOP gerrymanders themselves into power they get further and further out there, more skewed to a fringe of their party, and ever more dependent on big money who messes with the primaries. As a consequence they wind up with incumbents who simply cannot compete broadly and would be stupid to try. The only solution to declining popularity then is vote suppression and gerrymandering. It is like a cycle of addiction that will doom us all.
We’re back to one party rule again. All of these tricks the GOP play to gerrymander the state rob the people of democracy also affects people nationally. The GOP is way over represented in a purple state and in the US Congress. I doubt the GOP House would have a majority if it weren’t for NC GOP gerrymandering.
Mr. Mills, you've been involved in politics long enough to not be surprised that Republicans will lie, cheat, and steal to win any election; it is their way. The GOP agenda rests on one document and one fact. The fact is that their strategy of being the White People's Party will not win elections and the document is Lewis Powell's 1971 memo on how to overthrow the Republic. Shortly after he presented his sedition plan Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon appointed him to the Supreme Court there by embedding an anti-integration seditionist in our highest court.Your exasperation at their skulduggery cedes them too much legitimacy. I think you can move more people by calling them what they are, anti-American seditionists.
The voters STILL have the agency to choose who they want to lead, districts be damned. They just have to be convinced to use it. And to vote for their own interests. And it’s the last bit that’s problematic. Somebody way smarter than me once said “It’s easy to get half the people to vote against their own interests, if you can convince them that they’ve voting against the interests of the OTHER half.” Which is something that Republicans have excelled for over 40 years. Figure out how to remove that blockage and the rest is easy.
Sure. Sounds easy.
Republicans have been cheating since 2010! Remember operation red line?? Gerrymandering began at that time & has continued to worsen. Bishop Barber with moral mondays & indivisible did a great protest & speach about this in the past few days.
I seen my opportunity and I took it GOP
I can't help but feel that this is preordained. Each time the GOP gerrymanders themselves into power they get further and further out there, more skewed to a fringe of their party, and ever more dependent on big money who messes with the primaries. As a consequence they wind up with incumbents who simply cannot compete broadly and would be stupid to try. The only solution to declining popularity then is vote suppression and gerrymandering. It is like a cycle of addiction that will doom us all.
And yet, Democrats continue to often win statewide races. Which makes your point more salient.