When our mentally ill president called for additional gerrymandering in Texas and Gov. Newsom called for gerrymandering California, the obvious prediction was that soon nearly every state in the union would be gerrymandered. That shift has begun.
Some argue that cheating is the surest way to win an important election. That might be true.
A year ago the USA had eight states with independent redistricting commissions. They seemed like the coming thing.
Tomorrow California will switch to gerrymandering, and several other states may be planning something similar.
For the moment, Colorado is holding out. We can hope that three or four states will refuse to redistrict. But next year the pressure on holdout states to support unfairly their dominant party will increase.
Gerrymandering warps the electoral process. Our somewhat unrepresentative democracy will now be even less representative, less trustworthy.
This did not have to happen. Our leaders made a choice. Voters made a choice.
