https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-virginia-congress-democrats-republicans-12a31037f3c9a94d3cb9fbcaaf84d94fYeah yeah yeah "gtfo American" shut up for a moment
So just a couple hours ago the Virgina Supreme Court has voted to overturn a redistricting referendum that would give Democrats an advantage based on a bullshit technicality, even though it's been voted on in the house and senate for two years and was approved by a majority of Virginia voters. Meanwhile Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and more are allowed to racially gerrymander their states with impunity and without input from the population, and Utah's Supreme Court is now being packed because it doesn't sufficiently favor the GOP. The message is clear: America's two-party charade has ended, has already ended, and we are entering the era of the GOP party-state
Obviously as a revolutionary socialist I'm no friend of the Democrats, however it's transparently obvious to Virginians and others that this whole bullshit is just setting the stage for a partisan dictatorship and nothing less. The Republicans have long believed that they are the natural party of governance and anything they do to retain power is a good thing, and the Democrats have utterly failed to meaningfully challenge them, even fecklessly conceding while making some bullshit statement about how "the real redistricting was the friends we made along the way". It is of course obvious to us on leftypol that American "democracy" is illegitimate, but by now it should also be clear to the average liberal or really anybody to the left of Reagan that the state isn't even going to pretend their votes matter. This could be used to our advantage
While some are giving way to despair and others to rage, leftists in Virginia and elsewhere now have an increasingly radicalized population that is being openly disenfranchised, with one party blatantly deciding that the rules only count if they benefit and the other party deciding that's okay because god forbid they break procedure. We're in a prime spot right now to get angry liberals and left-libs on our side, to denounce our entire government as illegitimate. The question is, how do we do it?