Winstonm, on 2023-March-12, 09:16, said:
Not that I know much about US federalism but we have a similar but different federal system which does not oversimplify power to every individual vote being equal worth - I'm in kind of a mid to large-sized State out of our few (population wise at least)
When younger and more naive (in my view) I had similar concerns apparent gerrymandering
However when I see the mess the world is in I feel it protects us somewhat against the whole world being like California
They try their best irrespective of the US Federal system
I am just chuckling myself wondering what would happen if they suddenly changed the voting system to equal weight per voter
What would happen
Where do all those independent militia hang out?
My younger self would never have defended a gerrymander or any means other than the ballot box to keep things in order - keeping things in order sounds authooritarian and fascist - that is not what I men. preserving some kind of diversity and difference and respecting difference
What could be rather fascist is if California or New York or Texas some other big power ran something - oh wait - full circle
Sorry getting mixed up. New York isn't that big. Florida perhaps. I forget
I need to check a State population table to find who should be running our lives
And I could be wrong but California (or big tech) took over much of New York, media, you name it
Maybe the world has always been techno-fascist. Maybe its just a different bunch these days. Has nobody else noticed
They seem to have trouble knowing how to run banks (and other new areas of enterprise) though
Whoever owns them some corporations run the world so complaining about gerrymanders - hmmmm
They tried taking over the world's money. They took over and undermined/disrupted/mined every industry in ever place in the world
Complaining about gerrymanders. You do not run the world. Not if most of us have a choice