I feel pretty strongly that gerrymandering is the reason we get so many freaks in politics. Make a district competitive and maybe you’d have to actually be qualified to win. Way oversimplified, but seems right
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And so many folks who don’t talk to their constituents or make any effort to do anything but vote party line. In TN, there are a handful of reps that actually listen, even to folks outside their district. Every single one of them is a democrat. The republicans don’t bother.
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IT IS. The primaries reward the more extreme candidate—the gerrymandering ensures these extremists will win the election. Anyone can see how difficult it is to have even a functioning society to have minority rule by extremists. How can anyone defend that? Even a conservative should oppose it.
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You're not wrong. Guaranteed party dominance in districts means that all a candidate has to do is survive the primary/caucus, and since the primaries/caucuses have been left up to the fandom (toxic or otherwise), all that candidate has to do is play to the fandom and the money.
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That’s a seahorse
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