How do we prevent gerrymandering?

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Let's take the city of Austin, Texas for example. Despite being overwhelmingly liberal, it's split up by a half-dozen different districts, one of which [District 25] reaches all the way to Dallas, which is much more conservative.

How do we split these things more fairly?


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Do you ever feel like some political bullshit is just so deeply ingrained that it's impossible to fix? This is how I feel about gerrymandering. I wouldn't have the slightest clue how to go about fairly distributing districts.


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Do you ever feel like some political bullshit is just so deeply ingrained that it's impossible to fix? This is how I feel about gerrymandering. I wouldn't have the slightest clue how to go about fairly distributing districts.
Definitely. I feel like there's only methods to treat the symptoms, not the disease, at this point. Or basically just deal with it and adopt the "it is what it is" mentality.


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redraw every congressional boundary with a tiered system of objective and independent experts?

idk


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I'm sure there's an argument against making each county its own district, but I'm not sure how that might be a bad idea.


 
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Do you ever feel like some political bullshit is just so deeply ingrained that it's impossible to fix? This is how I feel about gerrymandering. I wouldn't have the slightest clue how to go about fairly distributing districts.
Exactly this.

My go-to, really, is to shrink the size of the government. It's not a solution, per se, to gerrymandering but it has the expedient benefit of making gerrymandering less efficacious.


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Gerrymandering can be good in some instances because it allows equal representation of otherwise underrepresented groups (SC's District 6, for example, which basically represents every Democrat in the state).


 
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We hopefully wait for a modern day Julius Caesar to take office and get rid of the Republic for an empire, because the Roman Republic suffered the same things we're dealing with today

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We hopefully wait for a modern day Julius Caesar to take office and get rid of the Republic for an empire, because the Roman Republic suffered the same things we're dealing with today

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We hopefully wait for a modern day Julius Caesar to take office and get rid of the Republic for an empire, because the Roman Republic suffered the same things we're dealing with today

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We hopefully wait for a modern day Julius Caesar to take office and get rid of the Republic for an empire, because the Roman Republic suffered the same things we're dealing with today

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I'm sure you'll be one of the people who hypes it up, only to get shot during a drive by.


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We hopefully wait for a modern day Julius Caesar to take office and get rid of the Republic for an empire, because the Roman Republic suffered the same things we're dealing with today

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Will he be assassinated by a group of statesmen that includes one of his admirers?

Et tu, Brute?


 
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We hopefully wait for a modern day Julius Caesar to take office and get rid of the Republic for an empire, because the Roman Republic suffered the same things we're dealing with today

:^)

Will he be assassinated by a group of statesmen that includes one of his admirers?
Nah, the Koch brothers will just hire some Blackwater guys to do it.


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We hopefully wait for a modern day Julius Caesar to take office and get rid of the Republic for an empire, because the Roman Republic suffered the same things we're dealing with today

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I'm sure you'll be one of the people who hypes it up, only to get shot during a drive by.

Wow, that's mean


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Some political beliefs are so entrenched fairness is pointless. Take here, the South Downs, for example; you could put a scarecrow up for the general election-but as long as it wore a blue tie the oldies and snobs around here would vote it in.


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I'm sure there's an argument against making each county its own district, but I'm not sure how that might be a bad idea.

basically this. it eliminates the temptation for corruption.