That increasingly the problem in Britain as well. Powerful and wealthy vested interests gaining an increasing concentration of wealth and power.
Here we Have some precations against gerrymandering but as methods of measuring voter interests and activities have got better, plus the disasterous 1st past the post system it means that both major partiies increasingly concentrate on a limited number of marginals. Coupled of course with what's sometimes called the zombie vote - where people commit themselves automatically to a party regardless of what it actually says or does [doesn't] do for them and their country.
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That increasingly the problem in Britain as well. Powerful and wealthy vested interests gaining an increasing concentration of wealth and power.
Here we Have some precations against gerrymandering but as methods of measuring voter interests and activities have got better, plus the disasterous 1st past the post system it means that both major partiies increasingly concentrate on a limited number of marginals. Coupled of course with what's sometimes called the zombie vote - where people commit themselves automatically to a party regardless of what it actually says or does [doesn't] do for them and their country.