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It's strange that there's so much focus on district shapes, when any voting system with proportional representation would make gerrymandering pretty much ineffective.

Every voting system has its flaws, but the US system seems to have particularly few advantages.

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It's not really "strange." The chances of us ever going to a proportional system en masse are near zero. The chances of making extreme gerrymandering illegal are significantly better (the Supreme Court recently heard a case about it).

Many people prefer to spend time thinking within the context of what is likely to happen. That's not to say we don't need folks who dream big, but we need more than just those folks.

I agree with the substance of what you say but I don't think it's wrong to invite everyone to have a general sense of the big picture.

And by big-picture standards, because of the way the US is constituted, the questions that make their way to SCOTUS are usually pretty strange.

stable oligarch control is pretty much the only advantage

Tip my hat to you dear friend.

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