It makes no difference when jerrymandering is in full swing.

Gerrymandering still requires significant popular support. In a two party system it can drop things to at minimum 25% vs 50% support in theory, but in practice it’s hard to maintain below 40%.

Don't worry, that's where voting suppression tactics under the guises of "security and fraud prevention" come in.

This is how apartheid systems perpetuate while still ostensibly offering supposed universal suffrage

Jerrymandering has significant popular support, it’s just that it’s one-sided. In a two-party system, it’s incredibly easy to maintain that support. Just look at voter suppression, it’s as one-sided as possible, yet gaining a lot of ground in a lot of states.

That’s just defeatist nonsense. Texas has turned ridiculously blue in under a decade. Almost feels like your defeatism has an agenda.

Blue? There is nothing blue about Texas’s recent policy. Austin and Houston got bluer, everywhere else got redder.

I wouldn’t call a 3.5% win, in Texas of all places, a tendency towards trending blue. You seem to be ignoring where most of the population in Texas is based.

It's tricky. Could Salesforce donate to organizations that are patching where Texas is failing (such that Bumble and Match's CEO are doing [1]) instead of offering relos out of Texas? Absolutely. Does that make it any better for those who are subjugated by extremist Texas legislative policy? It lessens the pain but the pain is still there, but to your point, the policies won't change until a critical mass of voters vote in less extremist politicians. This will happen at some point [2] [3] [4] as conservative voters age out and younger voters and immigrants (regardless of origin) become eligible to vote, but there is arguably a lot of value in accelerating the progress towards reducing the suffering of the disenfranchised. Money is speech, right?

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1033980404/texas-abortion-ban...

[2] https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/11/texas-democrats-repu...

[3] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/08/12/north-te...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/15/texas-republ...

Your perspective makes total sense. Don’t mind the downvotes.

Why wouldn't you just mobilize the California National Guard and occupy Texas?

If recent news is any indication, I think we've learned the hard way that you can't export democracy by force