Dan Drake 🦆I emailed this to a friend but I want to share it publicly. I am a mathematician and a citizen and as such, I care deeply about the quantitative and geometric aspects of democracy. The nakedly partisan redistricting efforts in the US right now are appalling.
I've done some reading on interesting, innovative, and fair ways to vote and set up districts...and these politicians are not putting up the slightest pretense at fairness. They're not even talking about democracy. From top to bottom, it's just a game, a fight to win, power to be seized. No talk of citizens or the people. Gerrymandering is the act of politicians choosing their voters instead of the other way around, and here, us voters aren't just being chosen, we're being treated like we're not even owed an explanation. They don't proffer the fimsiest justification. They are sorting us into districts like a farmer might sort cows into different barns.
It's like the philosophical distinction between lies and bullshit. Liars are aware of truth and reality and care about it, at least to the extent necessary for their lies. But bullshitters don't care about truth at all. Likewise, these gerrymandering pols do not care about truth, democracy, voters, or justification for their actions.
Walter Olson
Tadonic the Flautulent
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Tadonic the Flautulent
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