I think it means he is part of the cult. I challenged him to be a conservative when he pretends it, listed out a few of their own core principles and how none of them are being upheld by the Republican party, and of course this is ignored, because at the root of it, he knows he cannot challenge my assertion which is a insulting to him and feels like violence, that he is unprincipled and has no political values, only a membership and identity tied to a social club.
Like the aggys, they frequently get caught cheating and justify their mediocrity simply because if they lose, they must have been cheated. Admitting the Randolph Duke laid out evidence of their school's mythology instead of actually just being proud of who they are requires a little self introspection which they refuse to undertake, because they are far to insecure to admit, "I was wrong."
California had 26 counties vote for Harris and 33 vote for Trump. That is 9.3 million people in those 26 counties and 6.1 million in the 33 counties, winning 10 counties more that previously went to Biden. Which means 36 counties voted for Blue and 13 voted Red in the previous election. Of the congressional districts, Harris won 41 of 52 congressional districts.
So let us look at how this breaks down. In the previous (2020) voting 73% voted blue by county, and 79% voted blue by district. In the previous election Biden carried the state by 65% of the total votes. Well maybe this is totally rigged right? Who draws these districts? It is handled by an independent commission consisting of 5 Rs, 5 Ds, and 4 Independents, and they whittle it down and then draw names at random. You can read about it here.
Read about how Texas does it here. Here is an excerpt.
So @Ag with kids we have one system which uses an independent system to draw congressional districts to make sure they have and equal population, which has members of both political parties present an in equal numbers, drawn at random, which more or less is close to the outcome of the counties, and this you cite as being unfair. However, in Texas we have the republican legislature draw it up, or the members of the republican party executives and house, decide on how the districts will be drawn.
Let's look a little bit more into it. We have 254 counties, of which 91% voted republican in 2020. We have 36 districts of which 61% voted republican. Yet based on popular vote, we have only 52% vote Republican.
This article outlines something important. While they have to have an equal population in each district, they do not in-fact have to have equal number of voters. So felons, kids, immigrants, can be counted towards a districts population, even if they include people who are not permitted to vote. So this is kind of like the 3/5ths compromise all over. We count people when we need to boost the numbers, but they have cannot have a voice or role in their own governance. Furthermore, Federal law allows for up to 10% discrepancy off the total number of members per district.
So which system is inherently unfair? The bipartisan commission based district drawing or single party redrawing?