Can’t access the article because I don’t want to make an account, but playing by the rules hasn’t gotten the Democrats anywhere. If one party doesn’t play by the rules, they will almost always win. The only way to fix things and take any amount of power back is to play dirty. And fuck off to people (possibly like the author of this article but not sure since I can’t read the article) who say that that isn’t the right way to do things.
If democrats had gerrymandered their states just like Republicans, things would have been more fair when it comes to distribution of power. But because Democrats decided to make gerrymandering illegal on the state level for their states, the Republicans benefit because of the better drawn districts in those Democrat states. The only way we should have made gerrymandering illegal was on a federal level, doing it on a state level just fucks over Democrats since republican states will either never pass the ballot initiatives or will have the Republican government ignore it when it is passed.
Well that’s the problem. Once one side disregards norms and rules, everything is off the table. Take into account all the lawless shit Trump and his cronies have already been doing which is “action first, courts later”. When you have enough obstructionist behavior in the path to justice, we’ve already seen that justice will never come.
They will dismantle this country piece by piece and hold shit up in legislation if literally nobody is going to physically stop them. This is a fact.
The sad thing is that mostly the GOP has been playing by the rules. The Democrats were just playing an outdated version of the game where you could depend on your opponent acting honorably despite absolutely no rules requiring them to act so.
Yea we have a problem with republicans gerrymandering red states and democrats not doing more gerrymandering in blue states as a counterbalance, so the house is always in favor of republicans.
The problem isn’t with them not playing by the rules, it’s that they choose to not enforce any consequences for anyone rich or politically connected for breaking the rules. It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
Can’t access the article because I don’t want to make an account, but playing by the rules hasn’t gotten the Democrats anywhere. If one party doesn’t play by the rules, they will almost always win. The only way to fix things and take any amount of power back is to play dirty. And fuck off to people (possibly like the author of this article but not sure since I can’t read the article) who say that that isn’t the right way to do things.
If democrats had gerrymandered their states just like Republicans, things would have been more fair when it comes to distribution of power. But because Democrats decided to make gerrymandering illegal on the state level for their states, the Republicans benefit because of the better drawn districts in those Democrat states. The only way we should have made gerrymandering illegal was on a federal level, doing it on a state level just fucks over Democrats since republican states will either never pass the ballot initiatives or will have the Republican government ignore it when it is passed.
Fuck playing by the rules.
Well that’s the problem. Once one side disregards norms and rules, everything is off the table. Take into account all the lawless shit Trump and his cronies have already been doing which is “action first, courts later”. When you have enough obstructionist behavior in the path to justice, we’ve already seen that justice will never come.
They will dismantle this country piece by piece and hold shit up in legislation if literally nobody is going to physically stop them. This is a fact.
The sad thing is that mostly the GOP has been playing by the rules. The Democrats were just playing an outdated version of the game where you could depend on your opponent acting honorably despite absolutely no rules requiring them to act so.
It’s also sad that the DOJ wasn’t playing by the rules, but by a memo.
Lawful Evil vs Lawful Stupid
Democratic Party leadership has the luxury of abiding by Marquess of Queensbury rules. They ain’t the ones gettin’ punched.
Yea we have a problem with republicans gerrymandering red states and democrats not doing more gerrymandering in blue states as a counterbalance, so the house is always in favor of republicans.
The problem isn’t with them not playing by the rules, it’s that they choose to not enforce any consequences for anyone rich or politically connected for breaking the rules. It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.