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Kevin Kwok
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The arms race for gerrymandering begins now

Gerrymandering increases the misalignment between the will of the people and how it is expressed in our government, which long term will always be the most corrosive thing to democracy
A judiciary that absolves itself of adjudicating the incumbent metagame of gerrymandering leaves the only options to be decay or riding a new wave to overwhelm incumbents AND hope once they win the new generation will make sacrifice of tying their own ability to gerrymander
This will go down as the most pyrrhic victory. Destroying the feedback loop between constituencies and their representation creates significant potential energy and long term strife
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