Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Why can’t…”
Most often the prelude to a deceptive confuse, an insincere postulation, from one who knows perfectly well why or why not –
I have a dream….
This reminded me of the Drew Carey line, “what good is democracy if you can’t get what you want?”.
No one is guaranteed to be able to elect ‘the candidate of their choice’. There’s always a losing side in any competitive election. Also, when legislative seats are elected in single-member constituencies, minorities of 13% are less likely than minorities of 40% to get the ‘candidate of their choice’ if the demographic categorization in question is correlated with political preferences. This is not that difficult.
I, too, no longer have a vote here in SoCal. My beloved D brother cannot understand the visceral hatred I have for Newsome and all his works.
Gerrymandering in the past few decades has gone off the rails.
A district is supposed to be a group of people who generally consider themselves to be geographically united – their local issues are the ones the representative addresses. Too often districts look like tortured amoebas on the map, linking together types of folks who do not share the same local issues. I wonder if there is any way, in our political climate, to create districts that make sense.
If we want to abandon the local aspect, perhaps that would be better. People travel a heckuva lot more now than in 1788. Maybe a slate of representatives, each representing the whole state, would be better. Every representative of a state an “at large” representative.
There’s probably some Federalist Paper showing me my error, but Don would know that better than me 😂