“One thing we have really found is a place to feel comfortable being ourselves,” Dean said. Americans are segregating by their politics at a rapid clip, helping fuel the greatest divide between the states in modern history.
One party controls the entire legislature in all but two states. In 28 states, the party in control has a supermajority in at least one legislative chamber — which means the majority party has so many lawmakers that they can override a governor’s veto. Not that that would be necessary in most cases, as only 10 states have governors of different parties than the one that controls the legislature
This can only end badly as conservatives seem to have no problem ruling over land in empty states.
You can only hope to outvote them until redistricting happens in 2030. It’s sucks but winning elections, especially around the census absolutely have consequences. We need actual grassroots campaigns to get candidates with a winning formula. Stacey abrams should be heading the DNC because she is masterful at it.
Hope? That’s it??? Hoping doesn’t do anything. And Stacey Abrams is not heading the DNC, so that’s out of the picture. ~Strawberry
I don’t know what else you expect honestly? Either you give the non voters something to vote for or you accept the status quo, either way gerrymandered districts will not be looked at again until 2030. The voters you are trying to change, i suspect will not as most are single issue voters that have been told since birth that their worldview they are taught is correct. It’s not a matter of changing their mindset, you also have to contend with their entire world view is misguided, and that of their parents. It’s an uphill battle that I’m not sure will be won within a generation or even two. Many of the same voters you are talking about were raised by the same people who fought desegregation. The apple doesn’t fall from the tree. Hate isn’t an implicit idea we’re born with, you gotta be taught to hate.
Progress has to start somewhere though, and making policies that directly impact non voters is a sure way to turn them into voters for your platform. Writing off an entire area as a lost cause however will just deepen the divide and allow Republicans to push even more extreme platform positions because they get to virtually run unopposed at home. Their only danger is not being conservative enough and getting primaried.
They still choose to keep it up, and it’s not as if it’s impossible for someone raised in such a situation to choose to stop being that way. It’s happened many times before. And it’s not as if they can’t observe what’s going on around them, in this case that what they’re doing clearly isn’t working and has never worked out in their favor, and try something different. Also I expect that genocidal coup-attempting fascists are held accountable for their actions and as of yet that hasn’t happened. ~Strawberry
I guess I should have said that a person can change, but a group of people is a different task.