Texas Wants Women to Listen to Fetal Hearbeat Before Abortion

[Moderator]

Really good piece--thanks for sharing that link.

[Robert Gray]

You have to remember that Texas has been gerrymandered into oblivion using the same methods that Virginia is considering to disfranchise the majority of voters. So please bear that in mind and remember that the voices of the majority are not reflected in the legislative process. Consider it a cautionary tale because it can happen to any State.

[guido tkp]

quite true, RG...i got to have a bit of a front row seat of the tail end of all that some years back...and watched, aghast and embarrased, as members of my party used those tactics in various other states, too

it is shocking that the people simply do not understand...or refuse to even get the slighest clue, that in most states, where it 'seems' the R's have a good, honest vice grip on the electorate..they really have just used/abused the system to completely stack the decks in ways far more devious than anyone had ever tried...

and they've, by and large, got away with it...not just in texas, though...nearly everywhere: want to know why you're center/seemingly blue state suddenly has so many R's, or tea partiers...it's not because you and your neighbors have switched and are lying to each other...no, no...the decks have been stacked, as of the previous census', ten...even twenty years ago.

i find all this shameful beyond reproach: i'd rather win an election with the best ideas...not by carving out, literally house by house, an electoral map that guarantees victory under nearly all circumstances

truth is, though...no one is listening to those of us who talk of such things...all they want is thier taxes lowered and to be told they are not the bad ones...it's alawys those other guys who are the bad ones, right ?

...that's all too many care about anymore...i/me/mine