{"id":38426,"date":"2026-05-11T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38426"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:53:27","slug":"38426","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38426","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Gerrymandering Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38418\">Some ideas for further development<\/a><br \/>\nNext Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38433\">Rinos and Dinos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55099597489_cd28819125_t.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <strong>Donate to, Support or learn about the last lincoln republican. Click here:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/weltyforcongress.com\">Weltyforcongress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55263935138_cc2cb7f644.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MY GOAL IS NOT TO GET TO CONGRESS MY GOAL IS TO PROTECT THE LEGACY OF THE FOUNDING FATHER&#8217;S OF THE UNITED STATES. THAT MEANS PROTECTING AMERICA FROM PEOPLE LIKE PETE STAUBER AND IN THE CASE OF MINNESOTA THE NEED TO REMIND VOTERS THAT WHATEVER OVERSITES DEMOCRATS IGNORED DURING COVID THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA IS STILL CAPTURED BY DONALD TRUMP&#8217;S MAGAOCRACY.<\/p>\n<p>There are two useful solutions which offer a way to neuter the worst of MAGA in the longer term: <\/p>\n<p>1. packing the Supreme Court with new non maga members<\/p>\n<p>I went to school in the era when Republicans had succeeded in implanting one good idea into classroom history curricula. That FDR&#8217;s packing of the Supreme Court was a negative. AND YET IT IS NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL LIKE SO MUCH OF MAGA TRUMP WORSHIP. The Supreme Court had ten justices in the Era of Lincoln and you can be sure the majority of them had been approved of by the Southern leaders of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>2. passing a constitutional amendment to return to century old norms to curtail gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>This is potentially the swiftest way to straighten out an America in which the hidden string pullers rooting for continued Republican rule are hoping to continue their control of a divisive and unrepresentative Trumpian political party.<\/p>\n<p>And, unlike court packing so many Americans find fault with gerrymandering one political party to permanent senescent (senility) control that I think a thoughtful set of rules could take effect before the next census which could, maybe should, be required to take place only after each decennial census instead of whenever some power hungry party wants to shore up its control of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>I have not given myself time to read carefully the AI response I got as I inquired about century old limitations on Gerrymandering. I was however very intrigued when I read the answer say that before the Civil War there were once strong limitations on the federal level for what states could do to gerrymander their control of Congress. <\/p>\n<p>I know that in the South there was a mania for controlling the US Senate which was always under threat of being taken over by non Democrats. Democrats dreamed of adding slave invested Cuba to the US just as they got the willies over the slave revolt that freed the slaves of Haiti.<br \/>\nThey had plans to divide Texas into five states each with its own Senators to augment their control of the Senate. That would protect them from what happened after Lincoln&#8217;s election when the Republicans swept into power in a Congress they had abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>The current Supreme Court by killing the Voting Rights Law has very deliberately set up the permanant disenfranchisement of black Americans who are close to universally Democrats today. Their new rulings that say dividing up congressional districts by their partisan character not their racial character is OK even though splitting up Democrats also means preventing concentrated pockets of black citizens from electing their own kind to represent them. And believe me I am creeped out by writing <em>&#8220;their own kind to represent them&#8221;<\/em> because I can&#8217;t disagree with the Supreme Court majority&#8217;s argument that race should not determine who is apportioned out of power. Sadly the Republican party has bent over backwards to ignore black Americans and thus: made being a democrat voter <em><strong>even a reluctant democrat voter<\/strong><\/em> a necessity for most black Americans. Without great modifications to gerrymandering black considerations will no longer be considered by a party led by a President <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2024\/05\/09\/128149-a-good-lynching-and-our-way-of-life\">who once led a lynch mob against black people<\/a> just as he is now leading one against immigrants he claims are voting Democrat in elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: Some ideas for further development Next Post: Rinos and Dinos Donate to, Support or learn about the last lincoln republican. 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