Originally Posted by
Cinnabar
And that's just a fact.
This is what the Progressive movement is trying to revive. There are many young Progressives coming into Congress and many getting ready to primary moderates and corporate owned Dems. They are the ONLY representatives who will bring back the now totally defunct American Dream.
No taxation without representation.
That was the battle cry.
And now, we have Republicans who want to count only citizens or possibly only voters in the redistricting process.
That would amount to taxation without representation.
The Constitution says 'all real persons' need to be counted.
First they tried to screw with the Census, adding the citizenship question.
That was shot down by the SCOTUS.
Now DT ordered all federal agencies to report all information on who is and is not a citizen to the Commerce Department (which controls the Census.)
This information will be made available to all the red states who want to go against the Constitution and fail to consider who resides in each district.
Non-citizens and children may not be considered in States like Texas, where the vast majority of children are non-white.
If Republicans did fair districting in Texas they would lose their slim majority. And they can't have that. Fairness is no longer part of Republican thinking.
And the conservative states are talking to each other, getting ideas from one another on how to handle this.
Gerrymandering is here to stay, and Republicans will be using it to stack the deck in their favor.
'Taxation without Representation' should be part of their platform.
They have become anti-American.
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