| Comment | I was watching a US thing last night where they were focussing on marginal states and going through county-by-county what local issues and candidates might be important.
It was absolutely ridiculous hearing all the minutiae of these incredibly little corrupt little local cases, and looking at the map at these ridiculously gerrymandered areas, I'd never really realised before how gamified the whole electoral system is over there - anywhere the republicans take over the legislature, they completely rewrite the local electoral system and map in their favour, and it's been that way since Nixon.
The Republicans have not won an election in a fair and straightforward manner since Reagan, it's always been through gerrymandering, voter suppression and then disputing votes and clawing back individual areas until they have just enough to win - they have successfully created a system of minority rule. I thought 2000 Bush/Gore was bullshit, but in reality that is what is played out in every county across the map every 4 years anywhere the contest is close enough. It's astonishing how broken the system is.
What's interesting is that, under Trump, for the first time they're openly admitting to this strategy, because the world is so fucked right now that actually saying you're going to break the electoral system wins you votes. |
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