Political rant
7 years ago our state senate voted unanimously (40-0) to try to fix our redistricting process. Today they voted to undo all of that 🫠
I will be honest and say that I think the country might be better off if congress was different than it is now, but I also don’t want gerrymandering.
Even though I don’t really like my current representative, I like the concept of my district and I think that it is fair and relatively representative of where I live compared to some others I’ve seen and lived in. If they go in and screw up our map, odds are I either get packed into an even more conservative district or I get put in a district controlled by people I don’t relate to who are far away over the mountain.
Then what happens after this current moment passes, will we keep skewing our districts forever? Will future presidents continue to perpetuate this? Will my vote never matter again because there are like 10 billion more people in nova suburbs? The candidates in my district now campaign on issues like access to the internet and agriculture, if my district changes will the rest of us that don’t make $200k a year get forgotten because we’re not necessary for getting elected anymore?
Just wanted to get some of my thoughts out
Yeah, gerrymandering sucks. They’re doing it here too and it just makes me feel like the leaders don’t care about the state, just power for themselves. Inland eastern NC, for example is under developed and neglected, but nobody really cares about building or developing there. I just wish we had politicians who cared about the area they served.
I don’t know if there’s any easy way to fix it but I think both congressional salaries and districts are too big and that contributes a lot to being complacent and disconnected from constituents, which then is probably the root of most our problems
I’m not freaking out over the end of democracy or anything like some people do but I do think we’ve strayed a little bit over 250 years from the spirit of having the people run the government and it’s sad
If you think about how America started it was very states-centric with not much federal power, and over time that balance changed. And that might have made the district size problem worse.
I think it’s hard with such a big country, to solve the big districts problem. And with the salary, if you lowered the salary it would just make it harder for poorer people to run. There are just a lot of structural problems with the system, but I think also with the electorate. If people were more educated about politics it would go a long way.
Idk, just thinking out loud
yeah state governments generally seem relatively more efficient