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Partisan Gerrymandering — The Corruption of Representative Government Is Legal? Yes.
And that’s not even under dispute.
Holy crap! So the Supreme Court approved a partisan map designed by the GOP to effectively disadvantage black voters in South Carolina. That’s okay, we are supposed to believe, because the Court says this wasn’t done because of race but because those black voters were Democrats.
Intentionally subverting democracy is fine and even protected by the Supreme Court. Yes!
As Franklin said, we were given a Republic — if we can keep it. The evidence says we cannot and will not keep it. Today, we may be months away from electing a guy who talks approvingly about being a dictator and previously agitated for insurrection in a failed attempt to retain power after losing an election.
Am I the only person who thinks that gerrymandering — that is, politicians writing laws designed to subvert representative government, is absolutely completely morally wrong and a subversion of the idea of representative government? And it’s wrong whether the gerrymandering is motivated by racism or lust for power or, as it is in the South Carolina case, by both?
This ruling is atrocious, but the outrage should have started in 2019 when the Court gave legal protection for the whole corrupt idea of gerrymandering. It had been recognized as an evil loophole. Now it’s a Constitutional sacrament.
The entire idea of what the United States was to be — a country in which the people choose their representatives and not the other way around — has been stood on it’s head.
Of course, there had long been and continues to be other, and probably more significant kinds of legalized corruption. That the government is now simply an arm of the wealthy, that politicians compete for funding by ultra wealthy donors and corporations, and that they provide favors to them in return — well, that’s the rot at the core.
