Economic Gerrymandering

A lot time and money is being wasted by the habitual politcians trying to game the system with unconstitutional gerrymandering. Re-districting is supposed to happen every ten years after a census. Political gerrymandering originate some strange looking districts to have a political majority.

Most elections are won by a few percentage points: 3% to 7%. Instead of having districts with a vast majority of one's party, habitual politicians in control of re-districting spread their base voters around as many districts as possible. One way of doing this is cramming members of the political opposition into a few districts. Thus, a state sends representatives of one's party to Congress.

Economic Income Gerrymandering

An alternative 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. The IRS 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 geographical gerrymandering, candidates tend to come from the upper economic stratum. Geographical 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.

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.

American Apartheid Homelands

The national Black vote was diluted in the 1970s by devopment of 35 American Apartheid Congressional Districts. Previously, over 200 Districts had black voter comprising 5% to 10% of electorate. Given elections are often determined by smaller percentage points, this a sizable voting block. Thus, office-seekers had to court the black vote. Which is a more powerful Congressional block of votes: 35 or 200? One long-term white Congressman when asked what he would do for Blacks after losing his black voters responded he no longer cared about black issues. One result is done-nothing black habitual Representatives. One served 52 years. This is Animal Farm, new two-leggers enjoying long-term cushy jobs. Do you think these gerrymandered district are red or blue? Au contraire for Jewish voters: They don't want Jewish Congressional districts. They prefer to have their Congressional clout spread among as many Districts as possible. Which demographic tail wags the Washington dog? Blacks traded their workhorse Model-T's for engine-less shiny new Cadillacs. (Images of Black Congressional Districts)