California countered, with a statewide vote.
Which state is more democratic? (lower-case "d" intentional)
#5 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER
The US is a Representative Democracy, not a Democratic Representative.
The idea isn't that the most votes in the State get to draw up the representative map. If this were the case, then why all the lawsuits about minority representation in Texas that kicked off this whole process?
California is the least representative democracy state in the Union. There has been more than a handful of propositions that have passed, and the Governor won't fund it, or the Judical branch has ruled them illegal. Today the debt of the State is directly tied to this judicial ruling.
California voted for new water projects, all but one has been cancelled. Where did the money go?
www.latimes.com
The Democracy in CA voted to have a bipartisan commission to draw up the representative maps. When things got tough California abandoned it and voted to have tyranny of the majority, much like the State Assembly/Senate.
BTW: California will lose Representatives in 2030 to Texas and Florida, because California government is nothing but a taxation machine.
California is what I would call tyranny of the majority, the irony is 40% of the voters are Republican.
Finally I don't understand why America has a "winner take all" geographic representative system, it should be proportional to the ideas.
