Reply #37: Well, I just look at it more strategically than you. [View All]

[cascadiance]

There are a LOT MORE than just gerrymandering problems that affect how our government is structured now (campaign financing (aka BRIBERY the way it is set up now), redistricting efforts like the one in Texas, lack of public financing for elections, voting machine fraud), which I think are FAR MORE important to fix first before we fix this problem which has been with us for a LONG time and I would venture to say has a lot less bad impact on us than these other problems. If you try to fix this one first and don't attend to the others, the Rethugs may get too much power to the point that we won't have a sufficient Democracy to fix *ANYTHING* at that point.

Here's an analogy. You get sick from someone serving you fried rotten eggs each day for breakfast. You know something's got to get fixed to stop having you get sick from it. Someone suggests scrambling them instead of frying them to fix the problem. You then eat scrambled rotten eggs and still get sick! See how just stirring the pot often won't solve the fundamental problems?

What I see here with this proposition has so many warning flags that make it unfair and likely make things worse rather than better. We need a better solution to this problem than the one presented. I'm not willing to "just try anything". If I'm already sick with other diseases that make getting sick from rotten eggs worse, I might want to choose to address those first if I feel like I can make a bigger difference there and keep me from dying than if I just focus on scrambling my eggs instead of fixing the real causes of my illnesses.