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Why did democrats not stop the gerrymandering? Why are there so many laws that should not exist still there?
And that outdated electoral college, smells like the fourth republic in france IMO.
Because democrats have found a way to benefit from their own misuses of the law as well, so you can see how this leaves the people trying to change this with impossible choices they have to suffer consequences of even if they make the best one. It takes a lot of fight to stand up and keep pushing through that, and those are exactly the folk I'm proud to call my country-kin
I suspect politics would actually shift a huge minority amount towards "no, don't kill the planet, my grandchildren live here".
The billionaire planet killers can afford to buy up and lock down two parties. I doubt they can afford to buy out everyone.
It was long and slow and by the time it was clear what was happening it was well underway.
I'm someone who grew up in ohio as it happened and it was subtle. But we eventually passed constitutional amendments banning gerrymandering, but congress ignored us. And as it happened bit by bit we left. I stayed until it was clearly about to get unsafe for folks like me (I left a few months ago), and democrats are still fighting there. But political polarization is strong and a lot of coastal Republicans have moved in because its nearly impossible for them to lose there at this point in anything except single issue votes on constitutional amendments