Bury Gerry

[amused]

US congressional districts come up for re-election every two years. In every one of those elections, the incumbent is generally 'safe' in 85% of all the seats because of gerrymandering. The lines are drawn to give the incumbent a safe margin for one political party or the other. So, if the lines enclose 55% of the people who always vote straight party, the other 45% are automatically disenfranchised from their own government. Taxation without representation in its ugliest form, because it's a system pretending to be something that it is not.

But it's really even more evil than that. Because the politicians can fool that 55% into voting on party lines by appealing to emotional hot button issues, that 55% is also disenfranchised from true representation. Which frees our US congressmen to take contributions from multi-national companies/organizations and work to enrich themselves and the foreign lobby while ignoring the people in the district they were elected to represent.

According to the US Constitution:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Selling influence to multi-national interests in our own congress is treason. Our US congressmen are getting away with this because of gerrymandered districts. I think we should require the boundaries of all US congressional districts to be drawn such that the length of the perimeter is the smallest distance possible. The end result would be a pattern of interlocking hexagons, much like a beehive. Then each of us would have a true voice in our own government.

It's way past time to Bury Gerry.