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standingtall

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5. What do Democrats ethics do for their voters losing their healthcare?
Fri May 8, 2026, 04:38 PM
May 8

And many other rights. Democrats bought into a romantic fantasy that opposition would always act in good faith and now were learning a lesson from it. True gerrymandering can be use to suppress peoples rights, but it can also be used to protect peoples rights. I think some of the most aggressive gerrymandering in U.S. history happened after the civil war and before the end of reconstruction and Jim Crow. If Progressives/Democrats had never stopped aggressively gerrymandering then they probably not lost the Congress for the first time sense the late 1920s or early 30s in 1994 and republicans might still not obtained a majority in Congress to this day. Then Democrats wouldn't be having their voters rights stripped away. Democrats need to prioritize protecting their constituents over protecting institutions, because if they don't protect their constituents they wont have institutions to protect to begin with.

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