People don’t want fairness… 🤷‍♀️

Trump’s win in the state of Ohio carried with it our desire to be less fair as a state community.  Evidently, we want skewing (or screwing, if you’re on the wrong side of the stick). 

Bottom line, we want politicians to pick their voters, not the other way around.

Full link here.

We’ve all seen the crazily gerrymandered districts across the U.S., and there is a method, an agenda, to all that madness.  It is to, in yet one more way, tilt elections to the benefit of the political party in charge (whether D or R) at a certain point in time (i.e., every decade).  

Let me say that again, hopefully better.  Based on the close of the 10-year U.S. Census, the prevailing political party is the one who gets to redraw their state’s districting maps.  The party out of charge gets no say-so.  SOL.

Another link.

Questions:

1. How do you feel about gerrymandering?  Is it done fairly?

2. Am I correct in saying it’s a way to throw elections in favor of the gerrymanderers?  Why do Ohio people want that?  Is it because we are currently a Red state?  (BTW and FYI, a whole lotta Trump yard signs were accompanied by a "NO on Issue 1" sign.)

3. How would you suggest drawing district maps?  In Ohio, I’d like it to be by county.  Or, just take a pizza slicer and make a pie out of it. Hey, I’m not kidding!

(by PrimalSoup)