I wish we could educate the GENERAL PUBLIC to the point where they GAF about the GOP "rigging election maps"

[Miles Archer]

I may have 2 or 3 friends who understand the significance of this. The rest either don't know or don't care.

GOP hit with lawsuit over latest attempt to rig congressional maps

https://www.rawstory.com/utah-gerrymandering-2674206262/

Utah Republicans have filed a "petition to the legislature," to repeal Utah's anti-gerrymandering constitutional mechanism known as Proposition 4 — which would let the GOP-dominated state legislature continue passing rigged congressional maps that chop up the Salt Lake City area to deny any representation to Democrats.

Under this so-called indirect initiative, if Republicans can gather around 70,000 signatures from voters within a month, it automatically triggers a vote in the legislature on whether to repeal Proposition 4.

ALSO READ: Chaos in one city shows what all of Trump's America may soon become

"Lawyers for the League of Women Voters, Mormon Women for Ethical Government, and some individuals argue that the Utah Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling in this case upheld Utahns’ constitutional right to alter and reform their government via initiative, and that Utah’s constitution only provides for one way to initiate a government reform — a majority vote of the people," said the report. "Thus, the suit alleges that an indirect initiative that was created by statute isn’t protected by the constitution, and therefore doesn’t trump those constitutional rights."

[markodochartaigh]

1. "The

rest either don't know or don't care."

I don't think that it is possible that a government which benefits the public will last in a country in which a substantial percentage of the electorate is either ignorant or apathetic. Ignorance and apathy are the Achilles' heels of democracy.

[NCDem47]

2. This issue literally keeps me up at night

I get no sense of urgency that Dems are combatting this Republican steamroller of redistricting to tip scales for midterms. Every week it’s some new post about another R state going along. I’m exasperated! This and SC voting rights act nonsense could SERIOUSLY create a locked Republican rule of House for years and decades.

[Miles Archer]

3. And if you said that word for word to someone who hasn't been following the story...

...they'd be going "huh?"

And it's a great summation. That was basically my point. You, or anyone, walks up to someone else, and you say what you just said, and they UNDERSTAND it, and they are as CONCERNED as you are (and as is most, if not all, of the people on DU).

And I don't think that in terms of the "general public" we're anywhere close to that.

[lostnfound]

4. General public seems illiterate.AOC may be our only hope. Nt