California Approves Redistricting Plan
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California Approves Redistricting Plan
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It’s a temporary measure, through 2030. Then the independent commission reverts back.
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It’s a temporary measure, through 2030. Then the independent commission reverts back.
I suspect it won’t be temporary. A lot of things aren’t. Patriot Act. ACA subsidy expansion. Etc. instead it’ll normalize a new era of political extremism. I hope I’m wrong.
In this case, the measure itself is temporary. That's in the text of what we voted on. For it to not be temporary, we'll need to vote on it again.
Also, it only affects Federal congressional districts, not State Senate or State Assembly districts, so there's less feedback: the US Congress has little say over how CA draws its maps.
The effects on normalization are another question that you're right to be concerned about, but I can argue that either way. It's clear who started this mid-cycle redistricting, and it's obviously not actually a response to Joe Biden doing the last census wrong. Credible threat of retaliation may reduce the tendency to break further norms, when compared to the available alternative of not pushing back.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s a temporary measure, through 2030. Then the independent commission reverts back.
I suspect it won’t be temporary. A lot of things aren’t. Patriot Act. ACA subsidy expansion. Etc. instead it’ll normalize a new era of political extremism. I hope I’m wrong.
> instead it’ll normalize a new era of political extremism
That ship sailed in the Clinton era when Republicans turned a breach of workplace ethics into a coup. Every time the Republicans held any sort of power in Washington, they would keep pushing the needle to the right. There's nothing new about any of this. We are where we are because of the path we've been on.
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Just curious, did you have this reaction to what Texas did? Or is the problem here just that California responded in kind?
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#9I guess Californians believe that Marin and 'Jefferson' have equivalent interests and can be well served the same representative without disenfranchising anyone... and that because it's more natural for a state with 2.23 democrats per republican to have 5.3 democrat representatives for every republican rep than the current 4.7 dem reps per republican.
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#10I guess Californians believe that Marin and 'Jefferson' have equivalent interests and can be well served the same representative without disenfranchising anyone... and that because it's more natural for a state with 2.23 democrats per republican to have 5.3 democrat representatives for every republican rep than the current 4.7 dem reps per republican.
And what does the Texas Legislature believe about Texas’s Democratic voters? Do tell.