When politicians redraw congressional district maps to favor their party, they may secure short-term victories. But those wins can come at a steep price — a loss of public faith in elections and, ultimately, in democracy itself.
Eroding confidence in democracy isn’t a bug for them, it’s a feature. It depresses election turnouts because more people think “what’s the point in wasting my time voting? My vote doesn’t matter.”
Gerrymandering erodes
confidence indemocracyAnother obvious conclusion brought to you by the Common Sense Corporation.
You don’t fucking say! Does water get things wet too?!
Oh, wow, now that democrats also want to Gerrymander, we see articles like this.
wait there was confidence in democracy?
Honestly, it was a long time coming. USA today is mirroring the fall of the Roman republic. People and its ruling elites became too complacent after their country became hegemons after emerging victorious from a major war. The ordinary folks became disillusioned with supposed democracy, and started to look for a strong man to get things done, by breaking the slow deliberation and bureaucracy, which only serves the oligarchs.
I didn’t think I would agree with conservatives, but they are right about a society becoming too decadent and losing its moral fibre.
Rome was never a democracy. Rome didn’t have a single war that made it hegemonic. Sorry this account is just fiction.
I refered to the republic as democracy to oversimplify the explanation, putting aside the pedantry.
And if you didn’t know what Rome’s war with Carthage was about, it was vying who will become the hegemon in the Mediterranean. Sorry you didn’t know history.
The Punic Wars were another step in the endless grinding of the Romans against every region bordering their territories. Yes both Carthage and atomen were expanding into each other’s sphere of influence, but I don’t agree that either side considered it a struggle for ultimate power.
Districts shouldn’t exist, borders shouldn’t have an effect on if you are represented.
1 person, 1 vote
That’s a real, direct democracy
Once again a silly us centric article that just glazes over the facts. The state of democracy in the states is closer to that of a course.
Study reveals thing working as intended
No fucking shit.
Blatant election tampering erodes confidence in democracy? Who could have seen that development?
It’s a feature, not a bug.
"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” - David Frum
Exactly. When people lose faith in democracy, leaders have free rein.
Where do we draw the line?
Of course gerrymandering erodes democracy, that’s the point
Gerrymandering erodes 𝖼̶𝗈̶𝗇̶𝖿̶𝗂̶𝖽̶𝖾̶𝗇̶𝖼̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗂̶𝗇̶ democracy. FIFU
𝖼̶𝗈̶𝗇̶𝖿̶𝗂̶𝖽̶𝖾̶𝗇̶𝖼̶𝖾̶ ̶𝗂̶𝗇̶
Markdown (which Lemmy supports) can do that, too:
confidence in~~confidence in~~I tried in the editor, but it failed for some reason. That’s why I used this.
The editor sucks, in my not so humble opinion. Just type it out, that’s the point of Markdown anyhow.
