DNC chair defends party's redistricting push: This isn't 'your grandfather's Democratic Party that just rolled over'
DNC chair defends party's redistricting push: This isn't 'your grandfather's Democratic Party that just rolled over'
DNC chair defends party's redistricting push: This isn't 'your grandfather's Democratic Party that just rolled over'
Asked whether two "unconstitutional" acts make a right as Democrats look to counter GOP redistricting efforts, Ken Martin said, "In this case, I would say yes."
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin defended California’s redistricting efforts while criticizing Republicans’ own efforts as unconstitutional.
“If they’re going to do this and continue doing this nonsense, which is unconstitutional and illegal, we’re going to be forced to do it ourselves in other states,” Martin said in an interview with NBC News, referencing GOP redistricting efforts.
Asked whether two unconstitutional acts make a right, Martin said, “In this case, I would say yes.”
His comments come as Californians will decide Tuesday whether to approve the state’s Prop 50 ballot measure, which would allow the state to redistrict to favor Democrats in the midterm elections. The move came in response to Republicans’ redistricting efforts in Texas to favor the GOP, which sparked redistricting battles in state legislatures across the country.
I hope in the future, we will adopt better laws binding both sides. Political gerrymandering divides us into extremes and ensures a lot of voters—in many cases, such as Texas, a majority—disagree with their leaders without any means of effective redress. It's unhealthy for the nation long term.
But for the time being, you have to fight with the tools you have in order to give the future the chance to do the right thing.
Ending gerrymandering is as simple as doing the popular vote.
Popular vote doesn't work for the House, which is intended to be local representation. It can be fixed by setting the number of representatives based on a set number of people per representative instead of having a max size and having a neutral third party draw the districts.
The president should absolutely be elected by popular vote.
But what if I'm an unpopular ghoul who wants to use an elevated platform to commit crimes?
That's not really simple at all. Amending the constitution with both sides so divided is not just impossible, but likely to see Republicans gaining more ground than Democrats.
I agree. Im not much for the crowd that says dems should do things things like trump and maga do them but this is quite clearly self defense.
We won't. Both parties are fine with things as they are
We need new parties
The reality is the parties cannot be displaced or remade from the outside. They must be seized from within through primaries.