When enough states stop having elections, so does the country.
The Virginia State Senate voted 21 to 18 on a party line vote to begin a gerrymandering process that would turn the state’s 6 Dem to 5 GOP delegation into a 10 Dem and 1 GOP delegation.
There’s no way to do something like that without disenfranchising 46% of the state. But California did it because independent voters don’t bother coming out for ‘special elections’ in which one party sets out to eliminate any kind of actual elections.
And that locks them into one-party rule which they will then grouse about.
The bottom line though is that as states engage in extreme gerrymandering, more states that would potentially have open elections cease to have anything except a race to the bottom that elects radicals. That’s how you end up with the far left in power in California and New York. It’s why both states are cracking up.
And there’s also the minor issue that gerrymandering on this scale is functionally indistinguishable from a totalitarian system. Certainly elections under these conditions are meaningless. Democrats in California may prattle about ‘democracy’, but democracy only counts when elections actually count. And California elections don’t. It’s DPPK territory.