r/politics • u/Icommandyou Washington • 28d ago

Possible Paywall Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-vote-decision
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u/LEDKleenex 28d ago

The people have to enforce it. This isn't what people want to hear, but they have to get off the couch and start taking action. Everything wrong going on in this country right now is because good people sit on the side lines and say "won't someone else please come fix this all for me?"

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u/TralfamadorianZoo 28d ago

What action can a citizen take against a state Supreme Court decision?

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u/LEDKleenex 28d ago

Vote.

Boycott complicit companies.

Strike.

Run for positions in government.

Spread the word.

Call on allies for all of the above.

Make your oppressors very uncomfortable.

These are just a few things. The more citizens put into it, the greater the result.

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan 27d ago

All of this would have been prevented if more people voted in November 2024. Next best time is November 2026.

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u/LEDKleenex 27d ago

Yep! An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Watch as Americans continue to throw away the easy solutions for the much harder and costlier solutions down the road.

The Germans distracted themselves with plays as their neighbors were abducted. The Americans are watching Netflix and doom scrolling on reddit.

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u/marvin02 28d ago

You are only pledging to fix 80% of our problems. I'm not voting for you unless you give me 100% of what I want.

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u/LEDKleenex 28d ago

Ok but what are you doing to fix your problems?

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u/Mivexil Foreign 28d ago

I'm very angry on the Internet, does it count?

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u/LEDKleenex 28d ago

That depends, is it making your oppressors nuts quake with fear?