Who gets the blame for breaking our 250 year old experiment with democracy?

[berg80]

Black majority-minority congressional districts are racist and unconstitutional

You folks keep saying things like that as if what R controlled legislatures in the south are doing isn't drawing new maps along racial lines.

 

[berg80]

the partisan Florida Court? Again 7 to 2 judgement by the supreme Court, are you claiming it was a republican court in 2000?

I'm not claiming it was, it was.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The new voting districts approved Thursday could give Republicans a chance to win all nine of the state's congressional seats in the November midterm elections.

Tennessee lawmakers pass U.S. House map carving up majority-Black district in Memphis

The new voting districts approved Thursday could give Republicans a chance to win all nine of the state’s congressional seats in the November midterm elections.

www.pbs.org

Black people make up 17% of TN's population. The R controlled legislature wants to strip them of their political influence.

Republicans want to deny black Americans political representation.

 

[Nostra]

Republicans want to deny black Americans political representation.

Which blacks can’t vote now?

 

[Mac-7]

You folks keep saying things like that as if what R controlled legislatures in the south are doing isn't drawing new maps along racial lines.

The constitution does not prohibit congressional districts that favor a city or a rural district

Or a factory or some other special interest

But preferential treatment based on race is unconstitutional

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I'm not claiming it was, it was.

LOL no it wasnt.

 

[DonGlock26]

You do realize that, except for Massachusetts, most of those states only have 1 or 2 congressional districts, right?

Literally impossible to gerrymander…..

How many does Connecticut have?

 

[Oddball]

Who gets the blame for breaking our 250 year old experiment with democracy?​

The experiment was killed in 1913....This demonic azzhole gets the blame...

 

[berg80]

This the culmination of more than 50 years of conservatives’ efforts to undermine democracy and establish the tyranny of Republican minority rule.

Conservatives would say that they didn’t destroy our 250 year old experiment with democracy, rather that America was never a democracy.

The structural advantage R's have in the Senate and the EC isn't enough for them. They have the power to try to ensure minority rule and they are ruthlessly using it.

 

[berg80]

LOL no it wasnt.

AI Overview

The Supreme Court in 2000 had a conservative-leaning majority, which was solidified by the 5-4 ideological split in the pivotal Bush v. Gore decision. While often considered a 5-4 court on major issues, the majority was not as structurally deep as the current 6-3 conservative supermajority. [1, 2, 3, 4]