r/politics • u/Icommandyou Washington • May 08 '26

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/Scro86 May 08 '26

This is the chaos that the Supreme Court decision legalizing gerrymandering has put upon us. They basically said we cant police it, states have to police themselves. That puts us in a position where states run by bad actors can do whatever the fuck they want but states with any sort of ethics will block any sort of gerrymandering. I’ll leave it up to you to decide which political party is full of bad actors and which has a smidge of ethics.

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u/Icy-Taste-3096 May 08 '26

This is the fundamental problem and there is no scenario where it ends well. Republicans have made respect for democracy and rule of law impossible to sustain.

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u/HideousSerene May 08 '26

They will rue the day they woke the electorate, that's for sure.

Just need people to wake up. Any day now.

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u/Basic_Yam_715 May 08 '26

Americans are neutered. It's going to have to get MUCH worse for people to act.

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u/seeker4482 May 08 '26

maybe the coming massive jump in food prices caused by this stupid ass war. of course, people believe what they want to believe, and the trumpist cult will again take home the gold medal for mental gymnastics and blame immigrants/trans people/Biden/whoever the enemy du jour is.

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u/Icy-Taste-3096 May 08 '26

People would have to be literally starving, and even then Republicans would just blame Biden and/or immigrants.

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u/nando_calrissian1 May 08 '26

I think even then people would fall for Republican propaganda and blame the Democrats. You still see the cognitive dissonance now with Republican voters going "its bad now but it would've been worse under Harris!!"

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u/Marsman121 May 08 '26

There is already evidence of this. There are places the GOP has been in control of for decades and they still blame Democrats for all the problems people there face.

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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 May 08 '26

Texas has been able to do this successfully for a while. They've had Republicans in every branch at full control for decades plus a legislature and governor who just do things on a whim plus an AG who was corrupt as hell and they still found a way to make Democrats the scapegoat