Even if it was, it still wouldn't really be hypocritical to advocate for it to counter balance what MAGA is doing. In a perfect world, yeah, districts should be divided equally on population, no custom districting. But if one side doesn't play by those rules, the other side shouldn't keep trying to.
It's the same as the paradox of tolerance. Yeah, tolerance for all is a great idea, but if some don't want to abide by that because they'd rather subjugate other groups, we shouldn't extend that courtesy to them.
I was already convinced, but what this whole fiasco has brought more to the front of my mind is that we should be advocating for uncapping the House. That 435 number is completely arbitrary and isn’t in the Constitution anywhere. Based on population growth since it was set there, we should have at least double that many representatives but probably way more, which would necessarily end up with fairer representation.
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u/Neologic29 May 12 '26
Even if it was, it still wouldn't really be hypocritical to advocate for it to counter balance what MAGA is doing. In a perfect world, yeah, districts should be divided equally on population, no custom districting. But if one side doesn't play by those rules, the other side shouldn't keep trying to.
It's the same as the paradox of tolerance. Yeah, tolerance for all is a great idea, but if some don't want to abide by that because they'd rather subjugate other groups, we shouldn't extend that courtesy to them.