Caucuses were briefed. Polls are being shared. And the push to swing California bluer is taking shape.
California’s Texas-thwarting gerrymander has swiftly transformed from fantasy to reality.
Democrats in the House and the state Legislature are coalescing around a plan to draw a half-dozen Republican incumbents into oblivion — and persuade California voters to approve the new congressional maps before next year’s midterms. Party leaders are closely tracking the dual-track developments in which lawmakers in Texas and California are moving, in partisan parallel, to shore up their respective party’s House majorities. California Republicans are casting about for a way to avoid extinction.
It all points to a high-stakes, big-dollar brawl thrusting California to the center of the political universe.
Everyone a month ago:
Everyone now:
$5 says this new map just happens to get rid of progressive districts too because “they have to spread out votes to cancel Republicans.”
Let’s be honest. No one is ever trusting the current system again.
Might as well throw it all out and get some adults in control so we can decide how our government needs structured to prevent this shit from happening again.
Let’s be honest. In any given year most every voter is going to forget everything that happened in the previous years and vote based on the lies they were fed in the past month.
Nobody will ever agree on an adult to put in charge. Some will think brilliant, others will think moron.
I agree, that’s why I hate shit like this, it just further entrenches the current system and allows both parties to continue ignoring calls for change. The democratic party have proven they’re not gonna be the ones to change the underlying structures of the current system as they benefit from them almost as much as the republicans.