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Hey, Chris here. Do you know who your local representative is?
Yep… Dan Crenshaw
Texas…. ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION CAN Not only secede BUT ( with the help of 37 other States) can also take over Washington DC and boot the existing Government OUT !
Rob Woodall
Yes, I know and have had several conversations with all of my representatives from Township through U.S. Senators.
I love “The po!nt”. Great video :))
The more I learn about the american election system, the more baffled I become.
The more you know; the less you understand eh?
Exactly. Each law is an ammendent from the previous one because the previous one didn’t work out.
It should make you angry
Don’t ever stop, don’t ever give up! I will never quit, unify, amen.
The more you learn about the american political system, the funnier it gets that America dares to call itself a democracy.
The US is as much democratic as China and Russia are.
ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE, Election reform NOW.
@James Gentry Well given what’s going on in the Republican Party atm, it sounds like a fantastic idea. It’d certainly fix the gerrymandering.
@Utha I get it. You dems love to push your “our way or no way” rhetoric
@James Gentry naw. Gerrymandering just doesn’t make any sense at all to begin with. It should be the most votes per person. Democracy
@James Gentry I do like what @truejim posted in another thread. This would do away with al lot of the gerrymandering but still make if fair for both sides, or at least make it much better. My remarks were one of frustration at the ridiculousness of gerrymandering, and also the fact that under Trump the Republicans that enabled him have divided the country even further. Take a look, if you haven’t seen it already, this is something I think that both sides could agree with. Thoughts?
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/november/i-cut-you-choose-cake-cutting-protocol-inspires-solution-to-gerrymandering.html
@Rebel X the us is more of a republic than democracy that’s why we have the systems we do.
*Gerrymandering must be made illegal. The claim that it harms the opposing political party is a false narrative. The truth is that it harms and disenfranchises voters from having an accurate representative election.*
The only problem is that the only way for it to become illegal is for the same politicians who benefit from gerrymandering will have to write the laws that make it illegal.
I guess that’s why the democracy index has the USA down as an incomplete democracy (which I hope will someday get through to the people always screaming how it is the world’s shining example for democracy). I’m baffled how it can be called a democracy at all unless every vote counts the same.
This is the actual real theft of the election that never gets talked about…..I believe in 2012 dems got 1.5 million more votes in the house..and the republicans had a 30 seat majority…..but really thought in 2022 it doesn’t matter…..with 80 yo Pelosi once again unwilling to give up power until she dies of old age regardless of how bad it is for the dems…the republicans will probably win cause of it.
Every time the court tried to outlaw Gerrymandering it usually ended in a 5 to 4 decision. Conservatives know Gerrymandering is what gives them power so they will fight tooth and nail to preserve it.
and then you wonder why people feel like their vote doesn’t count?
Don’t get depressed, remember that Trump is still in control of the GOP and their battle has just begun. There will be a lot more anti-trumpers in the republican fold very soon.
Great. Now how about saying something about what can be done about it? What can the populace do to change things?
Fun Fact: there are provably fair ways to redraw districts. One is similar to how you and your sibling would split cookies as children: one child splits the cookie, the other child gets to pick his or her half. That’s fair. You can iterate on this process to redraw districts: one party draws all the lines, then the other party gets to “freeze” one district and redraw the remaining lines. Alternate until done. https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/november/i-cut-you-choose-cake-cutting-protocol-inspires-solution-to-gerrymandering.html
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the circus will never leave town.
Get cha peanuts here! Peanuts!
Happened down in Venezuela when Chavez got into power. It took his death after 14 years for him to get out of office
I dont remember these videos before the pandemic, but Ive seen every one of them in the past year. I love these videos 🙂 Thanks Chris
He just ruined my day, and did it with an exciting upbeat attitude!
With trump currently in control of the GOP you have nothing to worry about…..Trump can only run anything he controls into the ground. So the gop is still doomed
Actually, Wall Street blocking Reddit stock traders should be the most important story because wall street just blocked average investors from making sick money.
Theyve been doing this for decades.
Twenty decades, Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a redistricting law in 1812.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering #gerrymandering
We’ve been doing it for so many decades in fact some might say we’ve been doing it for a couple centuries
@Mighty One To me _competition_ makes America great. Every freaking district in the USA needs to be as competitive as possible. Make the SOBs work for it. For one thing we won’t have 85 year old rep’s, term limits will be imposed by the sheer stress of maintaining your constituency.
Yep th send fo it in Massachusetts. And Maryland and Republicans do it in Ohio Texas and Florida
I’ve said for years that gerrymandering is part of the reason we have such extreme political congressmen/women. There is no insensitive to meet in the middle. All 50 states should be drawn up by an independent commission.
Look into Ranked Choice Voting, then. Eliminates primaries and rewards candidates for finding common ground with each other = no more radicals in office, just moderates willing to work together.
@Jeff Goddin I have heard of ranked choice voting. I wish it was more popular. I wonder if it would be difficult to get people on board? Especially now with the idea that elections were “stolen” being said in some circles.
@Yomahira Ash Well we can’t do anything about people who won’t listen to reason, but in the past 20 years I’ve been surprised by how much progress has been made with RCV, now being the rule in Maine. The great argument for RCV that both sides have to accept is that it saves the states tons of money by eliminating the need for primaries. Let’s keep educating people, best of luck!
@Jeff Goddin great point! I didn’t realize that rank choice voting eliminated primaries. Hopefully this idea will grow.
Why haven’t we passed a law to make this done by independent commissions?
ask the lawmakers who were elected because of gerrymandering to do away with gerrymandering… cool! ask the oil companies to tackle pollution regulations too….
@Jonathan Hart lol
Conservatives on the Supreme Court keep Gerrymandering alive.
The whole damn system is corrupt to the core!!!
The Lord says;
” The former President will never return & the Presidency of the current will be annulled as though it never happened. ”
Amos 3:7
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DNC Answer: Pack the courts and grant statehood to DC and PR. You have less than two years.
When Fox turns off their comments but complains about “censorship”
Stop throwing “civil war” around like that.