Gerrymandering has been used by the far left and the far right to make many political seats less competitive, concentrating certain voting groups and diluting others. The net effect of intentionally drawing districts to capture a non-randomly large segment of a party's voter base into a small number of seats is that it makes the chance of both the disadvantaged party and the advantaged party winning their own districts higher. And thus, there is little need to win over centrist voters.

We need a federal rule against this antidemocratic practice, but the supreme court is dominated by people who openly disdain middle school math and are unwilling to require states to draw their boundaries in a statistically unbiased fashion.

Thus, without having a top down interpretation of prior voter fairness laws to block gerrymandering, we would need a new law passed to ban gerrymandering. And we already have a huge fraction of our lawmakers who stand to benefit from either a maintenance or a future increase in gerrymandering.

It's a terrible catch 22 unlikely to be resolved in our lifetimes, but it's worth working on. Most people who understand the topic agree, and grassroots pressure on representatives, sustained across a decade, could really help. It's a beautifully non-partisan issue because there are places where both parties have been horrible calculating cheaters to suppress the representation of the other party.

I hope that all centrists will learn about this issue and communicate with others about the importance.

https://www.fairvote.org/what_american_political_parties_can_learn_from_canada_s_conservatives