Cross-posted from “if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before…” by @Wheaties@hexbear.net in !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
furryprovocateur:
literally why is gerrymandering legal. why is america the stupid idiot country.
ndiamichelle:
This could be counterproductive if people actually vote. Everywhere. We can blame the system and politicians all we want but if people don’t get off their ass to vote correctly or just vote in general that would probably solve a good chunk of our problems.
furryprovocateur:
enthralled at the interpretation of the world you have. the best way to vote out a system that exists to suppress votes and bottleneck specific populations from being heard is to vote harder. tell me more.
toloveviceforitself:
There’s a certain kind of democrat whose whole politics is basically “if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before on a level that borders on the miraculous, we could win without changing anything else about how democrats govern or campaign!” and they think that’s not only a useful insight, but a good justification for rejecting literally any alteration of their ideology, their strategy, or even suggestions that (on the occasions they have power) they alter the rigged system that requires such miracles in the first place.
Arguably, if the US voter turnout would just perpetually remain high, the Democrats would be incentivized to be even worse. Then their strategy of always moving right and throwing minorities and rights under the bus to win over “moderate Republicans” since they couldn’t alienate poor or non-white voters because “what are they going to do, vote Republican!?!?! HAHAHAHAAHA! We’re the lesser evil!” might work.
The people most likely to be impacted by gerrymandering and voter suppression typically vote more left leaning (kind of why they are impacted in the first place), so I’m not sure why you would suggest that this would move things to the right.
If anything, it would shift things a bit left. Not as far as it needs to go, but certainly not ratcheting to the right. Thats kind of an odd take.