05-09-2023, 06:54 PM
$tevie wrote:
I wish a time traveler had come to us in the 90s and warned us that the GOP was going to concentrate on Gerrymandering, and appointing and buying judges, and buying politicians, while we just let it go on like a party of innocents. All the advances we made since then are being wiped out one by one because we never saw the forest for the trees.
There's been plenty of "warning"; 211 years should be sufficient.
"The word gerrymander (originally written Gerry-mander; a portmanteau of the name Gerry and the animal salamander) was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette on 26 March 1812 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. This word was created in reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts Senate election districts under Governor Elbridge Gerry, later Vice President of the United States."