Good. Neuter the fascists.
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The only way to fight unconstitutional behavior, is with the same unconstitutional behavior.
Please please PLEASE let this work!
You can quote me on this. Not only will this not work. They won't even actually implement anything to a degree that would even be able to make a difference.
Source: Democrats saying things and not following through for my entire lifetime.
And the fact that he was literally mocking Trump with this message. The whole thing was essentially satire, written in Trump fashion.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, California eliminates all Republican seats and Texas eliminates all Democratic seats... what would the new House look like?
Texas -12D, +12R out of 38 total. (+1 vacancy)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_Texas
California -9R, +9D out of 52 total.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_California
Net change? -3D, +3R.
House composition goes from 219R / 212D / 4 Vacant to 222R / 209D / 4 Vacant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives
Newsom - Nice try, but no.
Edit TIL - there are fewer Republican reps in California than there are Democratic reps in Texas!
Other blue states are threatening to follow California's lead, though, New York being one of them. If New York alone follows suit, that'd be an additional -7R, +7D. But even without New York, similar threats from Illinois and Maryland would also tip the scales (-4R, +4D combined)
We may not like it, but the fact is, there are more red states than blue states. This is a competition that Blue states won't win.
The red states are much more gerrymandered than the blue states. They have less room.
So... When are we going to stop pretending america is a democracy?
Probably not before an obviously sham election happens or not being a registered Republican is functionally outlawed
Registered Republican here. I've voted blue pretty much across the board since 2002, though.
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Once you start tearing up democratically elected seats, and I’m not saying don’t because fuck fascists, but once you do you gotta think that republic is on flimsy ground.
You're democracy is long since dead and burned, friend.
This is where we’re at
The House is supposed to provide proportional representation, per the US Constitution. It has not since the early 20th century. Instead, it gives significant increased representation to people in lower population states.
Madison's Grand Compromise was to give EXTRA representation to low population states (2 senators regardless of a States population), not proportional representation.
Dude was talking about the House, and the Reapportionment Act of 1929
This is stupid. Removing the voice of people is wrong no matter who does it. Fuck Newsom and Abbott.
We need a new way to elect our representatives. The current method has clearly failed.
Removing the voice of people is wrong
That's single-candidate districts for you. Put 40 Dems and 40 Republicans and 20 Swing Voters into a district and you're going to have a bare minimum of 40 unhappy voices.
There are alternative methods for choosing elected representation. But they don't play well with a country as committed to segregation, disenfranchisement, and power consolidation as the modern Americanized democratic system.
So they just rollover and do nothing the? I don’t love it, but at some point we need to stop sitting around hoping we will play nice or do the right thing.
Anything other than changing how we select representatives is a shit sandwich. One choice just has less shit.
Anything such as what SPECIFICALLY.
What I said in my first post?