Roe vs Wade vs SCOTUS legitimacy

[CJD]

(05-03-2022, 09:34 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I'm more bemused at a political party acting in the interests of 20% of people, yet gearing up to clean house in the midterms.  It doesn't add up, but man, you have to hand it to republicans...I feel like they could get their way even if 90% of voters were against them.  They get shit done.

Gerrymandering has a lot to do with it in regards to the house. If a state with 5 districts is 50% red, 50% blue but you stack the 50% blue in one or two districts, you can get 4 (or maybe even all 5) seats despite having half the people's vote. There are some pretty wonky looking districts all made with the intent of packing voters together to minimize their impact on the construction of the house. 

The Senate is stilted because it gives every state equivalent representation so it's inherently not designed to represent the voice of the majority, but rather the voice of the minority.

You could make an argument either way about whether or not the Senate is a valuable institution, but the gerrymandering is obvious tampering that I wish we could get rid of. They actually struck down the redistricting of Ohio back in 2020 because the Republicans made it way too obvious what they were doing. Looks like the Ohio Supreme Court just keeps rejecting the maps that the Republicans are sending in due to repeated gerrymandering attempts.

Combine these two problems with the whole electoral college problem and you got 3 ways minority rule is essentially baked into the system.

Some may call it "systemic." :)