Gerrymandered And Not Happy.

       Did you ever notice how politics can get pretty nasty? In fact, you can eliminate the "can get" in the first sentence and you'd be even more correct. Just say politics are nasty. I've been thinking about gerrymandering. Ya know what that is? Its when one party holds a commanding lead in the state legislature. Of any state. Any party. It helps if the governor belongs to the same party. That way, they can "gerrymander" all of the legislative districts so that the ruling party will continue to rule.
       Of course they can't usually arrange it so that every district is theirs, but they can throw all of the other party's voters in a very few districts and they can hold a commanding lead in all the rest of the districts. That way, even if the other party has more registered voters, the ruling party will still have a winning majority in the state.
       Of course some of the districts in a gerrymandered state seem to wander around quite a bit, but that's in order to get more of their voters in more districts and way more of the other party's voters in just a few districts. I know what you're gonna say, that you would need a professional guide to find your way around. It sort of reminds me of cheating. Well, maybe not "sort of", it just is cheating. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a law to stop them for doing it. Unless the Supreme Court decides they can't. Of course there's always the U. S. Congress. Congress could pass a law to stop gerrymandering, but, hey, we're talking about the COTUS (Congress of the United States), they couldn't pass a good hat.
       Now living in a state that gerrymanders its districts isn't so bad if you happen to belong to the winning party. If you belong to the also ran party, well good luck getting your road paved. Its just that there may not be enough money in the budget for a road in that district. Another word for all this would be cronyism. Or maybe corruption, even better.