I am not voting on issues in the Shenandoah Valley at all except inasmuch as I vote for a national Presidential candidate. My voting as a citizen of Oakland in the Presidential election should count exactly the same as the vote of a citizen of the Shenandoah Valley. That is fairness.
That's a bit narrower definition than your earlier comment in this thread, in which you said "Small states should get relegated."
I'm fine with one-person-one-vote for Presidential elections. The more I think about it, the less I can justify any system that results in anything else. A person casting a vote for President in Bald Knob, West Virginia should have exactly the same effect as someone casting a vote for President in Beaver Crossing, Nebraska.
It was not my intention to imply you favor gerrymandering, and if I came across that way - I apologize.
Appreciate the clarification - and I hope my reply answered your question. Ask away if not.
Given this decision, I agree the responsibility rests with the state courts. I am just leery as to whether legislatures will abide that.
Legal Realism: the jurisprudential school of thought that judges just do whatever the fuck they want, irrespective of law, precedent, etc.Mismoyled Jiblet. said:
Yes. Those times when they cannot find a way to avoid answering the question they revert to crafting all-too-clever opinions. Scalia, for example, was an expert at wrapping utter bullshit in flamboyant false prose.
What did you mean by post 20266 if not that you have little faith in improvement?
Scalia? He was murdered by statists in the basement of a pizza parlor. This I can tell you belief me. Many people are saying it and they are saying it very strongly.Mismoyled Jiblet. said:
Its nuanced - I dont think we will see much change or improvement in the near term, but I think that our population is overall positive and resilient, and, like happened in the civil war, prohibition, the great depression, the turmoil of the 60s, we will eventually get past this and be better off.
Like I wrote: The lawmakers and the people could do something about the big issues., e.g. abortion, guns, gerrymandering, immigration, executive overreach, even amend the constitution if the had any ambition. The people are sedated on Kadarshians. The lawmakers mostly goof around trying to hold onto power.Mismoyled Jiblet. said:
Justice Scalia loved his hunting trips into south Georgia and being one of the "boys". The culture there believes Catholics are devil worshipers. He went there on plantations. This is life. He was an intellectual? He wanted the end. He used his brain to do contortions to make right which is not right. It gilded his life.
Scalia: Gilded
