A well written response, but I choke on salt when I read this sort of call to action.
The house has been slowly and surely gerrymandering the country into hereditary fiefdoms for their parties.
And if the solution is to relocate to "to the nearest plausibly flippable R district" then we're really saying that money is the real power.
Today's decision is a black eye for the concept of self-governance.
In particular for Democrats running against entrenched Republicans, these people aren’t evil corporate fat cats. They own restaurants, teach high school, are small-town mayors, or nurses. They need help to compete. The DNC is not going to help candidates who don’t show viability on their own.
NOW is the time to get involved, before the primaries.
It's a PAC with the goal of ending all PACs.
This isn’t new, this is the sharp end of an edifice people have allowed to be built underneath them, complete with extralegal security apparatus. It’s only when an orange clown is in charge and his henchmen are sharpening their regulatory knives, or 75% of the insect biomass vanishes that people start to notice.
But I feel ya'.
Henchmen --> Fear-mongering
Public Education --> We still have it.
Mental Health programs --> Still have 'em.
Insect Biomass --> It's almost as if having 7B humans on the planet has consequences. But sure, rabble rabble, it's all Reagan's fault.
You propose this as a solution, but for the average person it makes no sense. Suppose that in the worst case scenario, the big ISPs did eventually start throttling certain content and offering tiered pricing for unfettered access to the entire Internet. Would the extra cost of upgrading to a higher tier really be worse than the cost of making political donations and taking the time to participate in lobbying activities (even if it were as simple as mailing a printed letter or making a phone call)? I am going to guess that for the average person it is not worth it.
Isn't this the problematic issue, though? If you have some disposable cash, politicians will pay attention to you even if you come form outside their district. If you don't, they won't. Sure, they want people to vote for them but that's basically a function of how much money they can throw at the problem.
You can not like that the system works this way (I hope you do like the idea of more RN's and school teachers as reps!), but compared to lobbying the Republican FCC, it has the virtue of being plausibly effective.
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But: if you live in a major metro area: you're probably in a D district, where just a few miles from you there's a suburb in an R district. Find that district and see who's running in it.
Here's who's running in the NM-2:
http://fec.gov/data/elections/house/NM/02/2018/
Just fix the URL for whatever race you're interested in.
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