Money doesn't create congressional districts, nor does it make SCOTUS judges turn a blind eye to political gerrymandering for 200+ years. Money does influence elections, especially with Citizens United, but gerrymandering guarantees elections.

You have to be joking... they do what they need to do to keep getting paid. If that means gerrymandering, then they gerrymander. Apathy and non-participation in state and local affairs don't help, but that isn't what is driving the train.

Ya know, some trains have 2 engines :)

But this one only truly has 1.... gerrymandering is a SYMPTOM, not a cause

Picking nits doesn't really help anything.

.... that's literally what you did though....

No, I pointed out another cause of political dysfunction. I did not dispute the op at all.

But you didn't point out a cause.... you pointed out a symptom.

Gerrymandering has been around for 200 years more than Citizens United. If you want to believe that money is the ONLY cause of or political dysfunction, fine. I don't.

Trying to rig the system by suppressing the people who don't agree may possibly be the oldest political tactic there is. In the end, it always comes down to greed. When you scratch the surface of most human disputes, it comes down to greed or love. But on a large scale, it's usually greed.

You can remove the cause... But, not the symptoms

Several SCOTUS judges have been exposed, when it comes to taking bribes.

Yep. We spent a lot of time prosecuting Trump when we should have been impeaching some SCOTUS members...

People keep pointing out the gerrymandering, ignoring that their state governments are red too. I live in Ohio, and people keep telling me that the state is really blue. Yet, I can't remember the last time we had a Democratic Gov. Vance and Moreno won statewide elections.

Well, the gerrymandering affects both presidential elections and more local results.

Gerrymandering doesn't affect the Presidential elections. Each state gets electoral votes based on the number of Congressional + 2 for the Senators. Nothing to do with gerrymandering.

Okay

Gerrymandering changes the voting districts, which scews the overall election results.

It does, but the statewide elections return consistent red results. Hence, the examples of the Governor and US Senator. If the blue majority of voters were truly blue, or even if it was close to 50/50, you would expect a blue governor more than once every 30 years. See it now?

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