Nowhere Girl
Roughly half of US states are not democratic in the functional sense. This is particularly true in the South since the end of Reconstruction, but Republicans systematically spread it through the midwest with gerrymanders during the 2010 redistricting process (see REDMAP, aka the Redistricting Majority Project) and the unlimited spending benefits granted by Citizens United.
There has been no countervailing Democratic response.
Nowhere Girl
People always ask, "Where are all the liberal billionaires?" And surprise! LOL. There aren't any.
You don't become a billionaire by having a deep respect for the law and other people's rights.
There are those that donate to Democrats, obviously, the kind who prop up soulless minions of orthodoxy like Gavin Newsom.
But they have no interest in undermining their own oligarchical power, let alone building a liberal media, and even less in the voting rights of ordinary people.
Nowhere Girl
Indeed, Democrats destroyed their largest national lobbying and GOTV operation, ACORN, in response to fake scandals created by known fraud James O'Keefe.
Since then, Democrats have largely abandoned certain states to Republicans, with Florida being one of the more recent examples.
Wisconsin only just rejected -- through the courts, not voting -- its extreme GOP gerrymander after 10 years of Republican dominance in which legislative elections were essentially irrelevant to the outcome.
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