Apr 10, 2021Liked by Chris J. Karr, David Thornton
Congrats on the 20 years and enjoy the time away David, been a long and crazy year. Steve got excited when i lumped gerrymandering into his column on the state of Georgia's election reform. I see both of those, setting up safe districts and those shaping laws to benefit their party, or worse their own re-election, as a travesty.
Average men and women believe is fairness, the right to vote and more importantly for their vote to mean something. Doesn't matter if you are right, left or center, expectations for a process free of the games that have become so popular by virtue of their position power in office are offensive to most of us.
Sadly, it won't stop anytime soon. The number of true statesmen (or women) from either side is minuscule and where they do exist, they are neutered by those loud mouths who are always in front of the camera bellowing. I've written it a hundred times, the vast majority of the country is in the mushy middle while the fringes of the right and left dictate outcomes...hence the mess we are in.
I had hoped the pandemic would result in a Significant Emotional Event (SEE for the Morris Massey fans out there), but unfortunately it appears to only be pushing internal buttons for people making adjustments in their own life decisions. On the grander scale of politics, it looks like we are still trapped in the tribal realities of winning at all costs.
Have a great time on vacation and stay off all the gadgets that put you in front of the social media trappings. Do that and your time with your spouse will be that much sweeter.
Happy anniversary. I'm celebrating number 59 myself but I'm not sure about my wife. I do wish there was a way to automate redistricting but any method will be flawed or overturned by the courts. State legislatures will be partisan. Bipartisan commissions will agree on court-approved compromises. Computer programming is done by humans and are limited in the ways it can accommodate political subdivisions and geography and courts that insist on no adverse treatment of minority voting.
Congrats on the 20 years and enjoy the time away David, been a long and crazy year. Steve got excited when i lumped gerrymandering into his column on the state of Georgia's election reform. I see both of those, setting up safe districts and those shaping laws to benefit their party, or worse their own re-election, as a travesty.
Average men and women believe is fairness, the right to vote and more importantly for their vote to mean something. Doesn't matter if you are right, left or center, expectations for a process free of the games that have become so popular by virtue of their position power in office are offensive to most of us.
Sadly, it won't stop anytime soon. The number of true statesmen (or women) from either side is minuscule and where they do exist, they are neutered by those loud mouths who are always in front of the camera bellowing. I've written it a hundred times, the vast majority of the country is in the mushy middle while the fringes of the right and left dictate outcomes...hence the mess we are in.
I had hoped the pandemic would result in a Significant Emotional Event (SEE for the Morris Massey fans out there), but unfortunately it appears to only be pushing internal buttons for people making adjustments in their own life decisions. On the grander scale of politics, it looks like we are still trapped in the tribal realities of winning at all costs.
Have a great time on vacation and stay off all the gadgets that put you in front of the social media trappings. Do that and your time with your spouse will be that much sweeter.
Happy anniversary. I'm celebrating number 59 myself but I'm not sure about my wife. I do wish there was a way to automate redistricting but any method will be flawed or overturned by the courts. State legislatures will be partisan. Bipartisan commissions will agree on court-approved compromises. Computer programming is done by humans and are limited in the ways it can accommodate political subdivisions and geography and courts that insist on no adverse treatment of minority voting.