Reply #60: because peopel have blazed the path [View All]

[northzax]

and it doean't work.

And no, redistricting is not irrelevant. It shows how a party in control of the apparatus of government in a state can marginalize the other party to extremes. Because the path to higher office usually starts locally, if you prevent democrats (or republicans) from having a decent shot at getting elected to School Boards, or city councils, then you reduce the candidates for house seats, then senate seats, then governorships. And then that party falls more and more under the sway of radicals, and when the time comes to switch parties (which always happens, eventually) you end up with the Modern Day republican party in charge, freaks and wingnuts who do not represent more than about 25 percent of Americans. But they control the local apparatus, so they control government. People are raised to be democrats, or republicans, since everyone else is, and the old habits die hard.