It's Okay To Steal The Country If You Do It Legally.

Do you know what redistricting or remapping is? Right. Well almost right. It's how one party tries to take advantage of their majority to make sure their majority not only remains, but increases. And not just on the state level, but on the national level as well. 2010 was a national census year. Now we know where population centers are. What areas got bigger and what areas got smaller. Which then requires moving boundaries to increase or decrease representative districts. But what it really is, is a winning, or loosing, lottery ticket. If your party has a majority in the state legislative houses after a census,, it gets to redraw the boundary lines of the districts, any way they want to. Now, some few states have a law that requires some sort of non-partisan committee do it, but most states are allowed to gerrymander the thing so that districts can look like snakes writhing in pain or question marks on steroids. The purpose is to create  many districts with slight advantage to their party and very few districts where all the opposition is concentrated. The idea is to allow even a closely and evenly divided population to be represented by an overwhelming majority of one group. Using this approach, a minority could actually wind up with a large plurality in the legislature. Now both parties use this tactic. It's not just Republican or just Democrat. If there were still Whigs, they'd try to do it too. So what? Why should this be a concern of yours or mine? Because they're trying to steal our government away from us. Do you think our national government is dysfunctional? Gerrymandering is the reason they are. If one party tried to steal an election by storming the polling places, armed with automatic weapons, we'd be up in arms, but we don't seem to mind if they steal an election on the sneak. Just as long as they follow the law. Even if the law is designed to make it possible for them to steal.