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[struggle4progress]

220. I don't know in exactly what world you live -- but I live in a solidly Dem town in the middle

of a state that's split almost 50-50 Dem-Repub

And for a long time our state and federal representation mirrored that 50-50 split

Then 2010 came along and I started hearing a bunch of "Dems aren't liberal enough" crap from people who kept their brains in brown paper bags in the attic, and we lost the state legislature -- allowing the Repubs to redistrict and gerrymander''

The upshot was that in 2012, although a majority of folk in my state voted Dem, an overwhelming majority of our state and federal seats went to wingnut or Tea Potty clowns, due to the gerrymander

If you want to feel morally pure, I guess you can go ahead and write in Groucho Marx and John Lennon, in which case we can part ways amicably with my very best wishes to you -- because down here in the reality-based-community my friends and I are gonna be working our butts to the bone at least until hell freezes over, doing our best to elect all the-lessers-of-two-evils and making damn sure the-lessers-of-two-evils all know who brought them to the dance so they feel they owe us a twirl across the dance floor