In Reply to: You clearly don't know sh!t about the redistricting process. posted by BluBlood on August 02, 2025 at 17:42:25
little what I know about it. I come from a position of having seen, and lived under, systems that apparently fall outside of the American political imagination, so my critique is based on lives experience of having seen both sides of the issue.
To me the argument that better districting process makes it all better is not all that different from arguing that the imperial system is better than the metric system. "Ignorant outrage", perhaps.
Defining the districts is a decision point. All decision points are open to corruption, especially if the decision point determines, and in turn is determined by, power relations. Proportional representation solves that issue by removing that decision point and instituting an objectively more democratic process.
Yeah. My "ignorant" outrage defines my politics.