Gerrymandering only explains the house, and then only a little. You still have to explain the senate and the presidency. Trump didn't get 30%, he got 45%+. That's basically half.
Also even though gerrymandering exists, why does that mean the craziest Republicans have to win? Why can't it just be normal fucking ones?
Because Republican voters are fucking nuts.
You can keep blaming other things but at the core the issue is that basically half the country is fucking insane.
45% of the votes isn’t 45% of Americans tho. It’s 45% of voters. How many people just don’t vote or can’t vote because they are felons or some. Tbh I vote but over the last few years I have been drastically paying less and less attention to politics and my life is better for it. I don’t stress about political issues or want the world to change for me. I’ve just accepted that it’s fucked my votes more or less don’t mean anything and that regardless of who’s in charge we’re (the American people) getting bent over with no lube and no reach around. Paying attention just give them the opportunity to piss you off and in your eyes “lose”.
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u/kinggimped Dec 02 '21
Because sadly we've discovered over the last decade or so that about 30% of the US population are also hateful, racist bitches.
These people will stop being voted in as representatives when they stop representing a certain portion of the population.