So far as I’m aware, surveys have said that the American People are almost universally in favor of outlawing gerrymandering. It’s the party’s and the politicians who beat the drums for it!
Which is why we have to be skeptical, when we’re met with the omertà voting down the ticket for one side or the other
You can think of politics as “Democrats vs Republicans”, and choose a side to support, and see that things go wrong but that it’s somehow always the other side’s fault and other side’s blame.
The reality is, though, you’re not a politician. You’ve maybe “aligned” yourself with the Democrats or Republicans , but the people in office are the actual Democrats & Republicans . You’re just some chump who sends checks that they can turn around and cash.
A far more productive way to view it is that there’s the Democrats and Republicans, yes, but there’s also us the People. We outnumber them and they only get their job if we give it to them. There were times when Americans got there government to work for them with great legislative ideas and laws
A politician’s literal job - like a fireman’s job is to fight fires - is to work for the good of everyone - whether they align with his team or not, whether they send him checks or not. A politician that gerrymanders is like a fireman that sets fires. It’s an act of maliciousness that precisely and absolutely identifies an individual as a person who is not fit for their office - no matter what their position list is. I guarantee, you can find someone else with the same position list of you go out and check a few dozen people.
We all get nothing when we let the parties act maliciously to drum up support, fundraise, and blame the other team for shooting down the legislation that country needs be it Healthcare, Jobs ,Wages, Education, Environment and so on
As you say yourself, solving those problems goes against the very incentive system that career politicians rely on. So again, you get nothing - not a single item that’s been promised to you from your party so long as we continue with politics as usual.
Changing that isn’t “easy” but it really is just as easy as siding with the People and against the Politicians. You don’t have to put a single one back in office. We could swap out 2/3rds of Congress with all new people in just one election if we decided that we were done with this particular batch.
The day that we’re all willing to step outside of the game is the day that we win it and we get our system running properly again.
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