Chain Letter for Democracy #2 of 100

Economic Gerrymandering

An alternative to the money-dictators of both parties determining primary candidates,  is "Economic Gerrymandering or Re-Districting." Suppose a state has ten Congressional Districts. Geographical districts should be replaced with districts based on reported income before deductions. A state would divide the citizens into ten groups based on income. Brainbees would be used to primarize a candidate for each district using Timism's rule of the thumb: Final 7 becomes Runoff 2 with a Winner. Candidates must be within the economic district based on gross income.

With political gerrymandering, candidates tend to come from the upper economic stratum. Political gerrymandering is one reason that the rich get richer and poor get poorer. In a zero-sum world, one group cannot be privileged without causing the under-privileged. Privileges result from public law-making being used for enriching private laws which in Latin is privileges.

With economic gerrymandering, all levels of society have a voice in public policy-making. Economic and social injustices will become less. This is better demos kratia: Divisioning people to rule on their problems.

With the mass communication of radio, TV and internet, pressing the flesh of one's geographical area is less important compared to screen time. Political ads cost a lot of money which the rich donate only for later legislative benefits. (The 2024 elections cost around $20 billion which is 50% more than cost the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier. [Most importantly, that unneeded spending feeds the elephant in the room: Climate Change.])Thus, economic districts make the move from geography to the more important principle that people vote their billfold, i.e., "It's the economy, stupid."

In order to have economic gerrymandering for states with only one or two districts based on population (about 760,000 per disrict), the principle of multi-state authorities provides a model, e.g., Port Authority of New York. The states would still have their own Senators for states rights.

For states with more than 12 Congressional Districts, the state would be divided into substates. California would have the following substates: urban, rural, suburban, coastal and mountain. Otherwise, 52 economic grades would have problems. Better to rich, middle-class and poor re-presentatives from different geographical areas.

Economic gerrymandering would promote level rights, that is, rights for each level of society from the bottom to the top. To quote Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Mayor of Minneapolis at the 1948 Democratic Presidential Convention,

"Get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly
into the bright sunshine of human rights."

Economic gerrymandering is one of many simple solutions to eliminate the worsening political and economic nightmares that cloud the hopes and dreams of humanity.

(England would have a more efficient and representative government if its 650 districts of the House of Commons were organized into 65 super-districts and implemented economic gerrymandering for each district. There would still be 650 districts and 65 Senators to replace/complement the House of Lords.)

Economic Re-districting is literal democracy: demos kratia, dividing people to rule.

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