https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-reluctant-activist/ The Reluctant Activist
Feb. 5, 2018
Turns out gerrymandering is quite sinister, anti-democratic at its core and done in the darkness of a small conference room—the quintessential backroom deal, but not a deal, because the other guys aren’t even in the room. Robbing people of the power of their vote is the nitty-gritty of politics that is never sent up on an SNL sketch.