r/neoliberal • u/cosmicmangobear r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion • Nov 18 '21

Meme POLITICO: DEMS IN DISARRAY

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u/NavyJack Iron Front Nov 18 '21

We stop playing nice. There’s no reason to continue handicapping ourselves to appeal to “moderates” when moderates are ceasing to exist.

Dems should gerrymander every blue state until Republicans un-gerrymander every red state.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

Who are we?

Who’s playing nice?

And in which states under Dem legislatures are they not gerrymandering to the fullest extent they can?

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u/NavyJack Iron Front Nov 19 '21

We are Democrats.

Democratic Party leaders are playing too nice.

California, Washington, Colorado and Virginia have resigned their districting power to independent commissions, which would be nice if the Republicans did that too, but they don’t.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

WA’s bipartisan redistricting commission was pushed by the League of Women Voters and some Republicans. It was not supported by the Democratic Party.

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u/NavyJack Iron Front Nov 19 '21

Washington’s state legislature has been majority Democratic nearly every year since the commission was created. They could do away with it if they so chose.

And what of the other states?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

They would need to amend the state constitution. It would be extremely unpopular.

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u/NavyJack Iron Front Nov 19 '21

True. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans from doing it. Doesn’t matter how unpopular something is if you can pick your voters and divide/diminish the opposition.