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The Virginia State Senate voted 21 to 18 on a party line vote to begin a gerrymandering process that would turn the state’s 6 Dem to 5 GOP delegation into a 10 Dem and 1 GOP delegation.
There’s no way to do something like that without disenfranchising 46% of the state. But California did it because independent voters don’t bother coming out for ‘special elections’ in which one party sets out to eliminate any kind of actual elections.
And that locks them into one-party rule which they will then grouse about.
The bottom line though is that as states engage in extreme gerrymandering, more states that would potentially have open elections cease to have anything except a race to the bottom that elects radicals. That’s how you end up with the far left in power in California and New York. It’s why both states are cracking up.
And there’s also the minor issue that gerrymandering on this scale is functionally indistinguishable from a totalitarian system. Certainly elections under these conditions are meaningless. Democrats in California may prattle about ‘democracy’, but democracy only counts when elections actually count. And California elections don’t. It’s DPPK territory.
When enough states stop having elections, then so does the country and at that point we’re just Cuba with more TV channels. By then the government will have no legitimacy, the Constitution will be a dead letter and the American Experiment will be over.
I was born and raised in Virginia in 1960. This all started with the rot in DC, which spread in every direction. Even W. Va was not completely immune. Camp followers flocked by the millions into the suburbs to lobby, bribe and defraud on the tax payer’s dime. I got the heck out on the heels of covid and never looked back. It was a long time coming, but they finally ruined what used to be a great Commonwealth. Now it’s a Commie cesspool. Good riddance!
The mid-terms are going to be an absolute disaster for us. As for the 2028 general election, likely another disaster both in terms of our likely candidate and the outcome. The joy and hope of Trump winning last year is fading fast….
Troll. At least, you might as well be with such a dark and hopeless view as that. I do wish those who are never happy or positive would just stop posting.
A one-party state can lead to tyranny. Our whole system was premised on balance of power.
Look no future than commiefornia!!!!!!!!!!!!
Under the US Constitution, the American people have the right to vote for whomever they want to vote for. If totalitarian control (one party rule) is achieved via a free and fair election and the majority elected candidates (democrat or republican) from a single party, then totalitarian control does not conflict with the US Constitution.
To argue otherwise is to argue that the government can tell the people who they can and cannot vote for. That is tyranny. America hasn’t gotten to that point–yet.
Succinctly stated, if totalitarian control came to fruition in America then it would be a failure solely on the part of the American people.
The whole point of gerrymandering is to eliminate the ability of people to vote. The Constitution was never intended with parties in mind and George Washington opposed them. Many of the founding fathers believe that factions gaining control of politics , that’s what they called political parties, would lead to Anarchy or tyranny. They were correct.
Yes, right to the point. Factions are deadly. That is another syndrome I started to track in history.
What the Constitution never intended is a moot point. In retrospect, what the founders feared would happen, happened and we the American people are not innocents in the matter. The party system did not develop in secret. We the American people participated in the creation of the party system by acquiescing to its development.
The political monster we helped create now threatens to drag us all down a path fraught with dangers we already know and understand. What’s even more frightening is that too many Americans are willing to go down that path out of loyalty to a political party.
I was once a life long republican until circa, 2003 when I was “forced out” of the republican party by GW Bush and the neocons. I sensed way back then that there was something wrong with the political party system but couldn’t quite articulate what that something was at the time. Now I can but this isn’t the forum for it.
Suffice it to say, I’ve been a registered independent every since and will remain that way for the rest of my life. True freedom is not owing fealty to a political party. That is what it means to be an American!
Rob, you seriously misunderstand the point of the Constitution. It was never intended to create an unlimited democracy, in which the majority can do whatever it wishes. That is the reason for limited, divided powers, and numerous outright prohibitions.
The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect individual rights. No majority has the right to elect a tyranny and impose it on the minority, so no government, even if elected, can claim legitimacy and a “mandate” simply because of an election.. And as an aside, the Left has been stealing elections for a long time.
As for gerrymandering, this is a complex problem and represents an oversight on the Framers’ part. Correcting it will probably require amending the Constitution.
The Dem-O-Rats wont be happy until they have total control of our daily lives the Democrats/Globalists want it all to appease the rest of the UN/CFR/Globalists Socialists
the situation: the north american land mass housing the ‘United States of America’ has, in reality, become two separate nations within the same land mass with one government attempting to govern both separate nations.
the solution: DIVISION of this nation into at least two, but preferably more, independent nations, each with their own government not affiliated with, or partners with, any of the other newly formed nations save by voluntary joining for task solving only.
Surrender is not solution. Who cuts the baby? Solomon? How is your half protected?