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Our continental dingleberry
I will never understand how the court found that materially disenfranchising voters by packing and cracking them to dilute their political influence is part of a free and fair election. Their solution is to just vote for people who wont gerrymander. So how does that work when your influence is already gerrymandered, or you have a max of 10 years to overcome a gerrymander or have all of your gained influence undone with a new gerrymander. And its really hard especially in southern states to separate race from politics when 9 out of 10 black voters support Democrats.
I live next to district 6 (Clyburn) which is packed to hell to ensure district 1 (Mace) stays republican. They fit all of the urban areas they could and packed it into one district, surgically placing the most liberal areas and the towns with the highest percentage of minorities to pack it as much as they could. It has the downtown areas of Charleston AND Columbia in it, two cities about a 90 minute drive away from each other. Its a travesty. >

Check out this short documentary The election of George Washington was weirder than you think. The author goes into the details of the creation of our electoral system and he describes the Federalists who wanted to just count votes and tally them up at the state level. The anti-Federalists insisted upon breaking the voters up into districts because then they could ensure that rural voters would have more say in the outcome of elections. We still suffer the consequences of this decision to this day. People seem to be realizing that it is an antiquated mechanism of control and not the ultra-fair process like we've been led to believe. Hopefully that can lead to positive change in our extremely flawed system. >

A bit related here. Alexander Hamilton, a founding father, said democracy was a parasite and was against representation democracy. He wasn’t as good as the play makes him out to be and a congressional report from the 1940’s found him to be an influential figure for the Nazis. He did things like fight for the Tories after the Revolutionary War in court against his fellow countrymen. Aaron Burr is really who people should be looking to. Even though historians make him to be the bad guy because he killed Hamilton during their duel. And even though Hamilton wrote a letter before the duel saying he was going to let Burr shoot first so that stories went out that Burr sounded blood hungry. >

Isn't Burr more of a villain for his attempted treason and trying to sell out Florida? >

Dude he would be a National hero if he managed to offload that piece of turd