Anonymous
11/03/2025 18:22
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
We never had a real democracy to begin with.
What a dumb comment! What were we then?
What we have always been a constitutional republic.
A constitutional republic is a form of democracy, specifically a "representative democracy". The "republic" part refers to the representative system, and the "constitutional" part ensures the government's power is limited and rights are protected.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 18:21
Subject: Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Can't we just have AI do boundaries related to neighborhoods and try to make them as equal as possible? It just seems like a computer could do this better than a politician.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 18:20
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
We never had a real democracy to begin with.
What a dumb comment! What were we then?
What we have always been a constitutional republic.
No shit! And what does that mean?
Anonymous
11/03/2025 18:17
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
We never had a real democracy to begin with.
What a dumb comment! What were we then?
What we have always been a constitutional republic.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 17:18
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
We never had a real democracy to begin with.
What a dumb comment! What were we then?
Anonymous
11/03/2025 17:17
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
Absolutely!!!!
Anonymous
11/03/2025 17:16
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
We never had a real democracy to begin with.
Pure democracy, no. That would be mob rule.
I thought they were tourists?
Anonymous
11/03/2025 11:32
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
We never had a real democracy to begin with.
Pure democracy, no. That would be mob rule.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 09:56
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
We never had a real democracy to begin with.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 08:50
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
+1
Anonymous
11/03/2025 07:46
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Two wrongs don't make a right. I am completely against the Democrats trying to gerrymander votes. Even though I desperately want the Republicans out of power.
The only way to come close is for the democrats to gerrymander as well. Otherwise, they are simply ceding seats and power to the GOP.
They've already gerrymandered most of their states. But, you know that.
I guess it’s time to do the rest to try to save the country.
Anonymous
11/01/2025 22:28
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Two wrongs don't make a right. I am completely against the Democrats trying to gerrymander votes. Even though I desperately want the Republicans out of power.
The only way to come close is for the democrats to gerrymander as well. Otherwise, they are simply ceding seats and power to the GOP.
They've already gerrymandered most of their states. But, you know that.
Anonymous
11/01/2025 21:41
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Democracy is dead in America. When lawmakers stop playing by the rules, democracy collapses. 250 years was a pretty good run.
John Roberts and the GOP members of the Supreme Court destroyed American democracy when they ruled that Dump was above the law.
Anonymous
10/30/2025 22:55
Subject: Re:Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:Two wrongs don't make a right. I am completely against the Democrats trying to gerrymander votes. Even though I desperately want the Republicans out of power.
The only way to come close is for the democrats to gerrymander as well. Otherwise, they are simply ceding seats and power to the GOP.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 22:01
Subject: Now Virginia Democrats want to redraw congressional districts
Anonymous wrote:The meta problem for all of us is that the posters who say Democrats can't just let Republicans change the rules and keep playing by the old ones are right — and/but that also means everything's only going to keep getting worse. Once we start redistricting the entire House every year or two just to eke out an extra seat here or there to hold the majority, how do you ever stop? What are the other norms (or laws) that Democrats will decide they should discard because Trump has already shattered them?
I don't think there's a better solution, I think it just means we're cooked.
No duh. The system broke once Texas did it. The norm was broken. The only chance of coming out of this loop is by stopping it from working on a national level.