2020 Democrat primary debates

[Parkbandit]

Story of your life.

Still.

[~Rocktar~]

The best part of you landed in the sock.

[RichardCranium]

Nah. Looking back on that thread I must have been doing something and posting thoughts down really quickly around whatever else it was that I was doing. I followed up with some videos on gerrymandering but then never fully explained it so got me there.

But gerrymandering is very real and everyone should hate it because not just republicans do it.

Let me help you out. It was a buzzword shat out by the mainstream media you hold so dear and you latched onto it then regurgitated it here.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Anyone who has every looked at county maps anywhere knows gerrymandering is potentially an issue for everyone. It'd be good to address it such that it was apolitical, but we all know that will never happen.

[Gelston]

Anyone who has every looked at county maps anywhere knows gerrymandering is potentially an issue for everyone. It'd be good to address it such that it was apolitical, but we all know that will never happen.

They should just take every state, put evenly space vertical and horizontal lines across it, and call it a day. Some districts will be tiny because the the weird shapes of states, but oh well.

Can't blame anything on gerrymandering anymore.

OH NOEZ! ALL THE REPUBLICANS MOVED INTO THESE SQUARES TO FLIP THE SEATS!

[Parkbandit]

They should just take every state, put evenly space vertical and horizontal lines across it, and call it a day. Some districts will be tiny because the the weird shapes of states, but oh well.

Can't blame anything on gerrymandering anymore.

OH NOEZ! ALL THE REPUBLICANS MOVED INTO THESE SQUARES TO FLIP THE SEATS!

Or just make it by county. Ok, this county has x population, you get x number of House seats.

[RichardCranium]

Or just make it by county. Ok, this county has x population, you get x number of House seats.

What's a county?

[Parkbandit]

What's a county?

[Back]

Anyone who has every looked at county maps anywhere knows gerrymandering is potentially an issue for everyone. It'd be good to address it such that it was apolitical, but we all know that will never happen.

SCOTUS is looking at a couple of cases right now. One republican, one democrat. Hopefully they rule it unconstitutional. People should pick politicians, not politicians picking voters.

[Tgo01]

SCOTUS is looking at a couple of cases right now. One republican, one democrat. Hopefully they rule it unconstitutional. People should pick politicians, not politicians picking voters.

The supreme court isn't about to tell states how they can and cannot choose their own representatives. Unless of course a Democrat gets in office and packs the supreme court like they want to.

People make too big of a deal about gerrymandering and the current process. What is the solution? Have a committee draw up districts like some states have? Because surely a committee that isn't elected can't possibly be more corrupt than elected officials.

Have a system similar to other countries where each party gets proportional seats depending on what percent of the vote they get? I don't like that system because you're voting on parties rather than individuals. Right now someone can get elected as a Democrat but still have some conservative ideas, because they understand the district they are coming from and what the people want. The other system would just have another "yes man" in office that toes the party line.