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Partisan gerrymandering is bad for democracy: it insulates politicians from voters and pushes politics to the extremes

Drawn from what Arnold Schwarzenegger said

Subjectspoliticsdemocracy
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politics How people actually hold political views: tribes, partisanship, and whether anybody reasons their way in.

democracy Elections, the losers accepting them, and the rules that keep power answerable to voters.

What Arnold Schwarzenegger actually said

  1. Arnold Schwarzenegger Austrian-born American bodybuilder
    All of this is bad for democracy. Gerrymandering insulates politicians from the voters. It entrenches a party in power, providing a firewall that preserves a majority even when the other side wins more votes. It pushes our politics to the extremes

    ↗"Too many voters live under minority rule. Here's why." by Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Daley, The Washington Post, 9 September 2019 (Wayback Machine copy)web.archive.org

    9 Sept 2019

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