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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Actually, this is the best approach. So it’s not the end of the Democracy. It’s just a splintering of the Republic into permanent red and blue enclaves.
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That, of course, favors the Repubes since they have solid control over states with more seats than do Dems. I understand you like that.
Gerrymandering has a lot of adverse consequences - it makes seats noncompetitive, so incumbents more easily win; it shifts the real focus to primaries, so elections get controlled by a smaller more radical group; it concentrates money in fewer competitive districts. There just isn't a silver lining to gerrymandering.
