Gerrymandering

[Montmorency]

whilst the Ulster Unionist party gained 15% of the seats on 0.8% of the vote.

Holy shit.

1. Again, I felt satisfied.

2. My impression was he was saying lower Federal Courts were wrong to apply such a standard.

What about state courts?!

On the political side, Democrats had hoped to wiggle in here at least in Wisconsin by picking up state Supreme Court seats in 2018-19-20 elections - ahead of redistricting you see - but after picking up a seat in 2018 they narrowly lost this year, dashing hopes for a liberal majority on the court in the near-term.

Usually when they can't feed themselves or can't enjoy a small slice of the luxary the wealthy have.

There's a lot about the wealth gap that people in America seem to ignore - chiefly that you need to provide a certain level of "bread and circuses" and not just a minimum.

A lot of research indicates Trump partisans are motivated more by cultural/racial animus than economic insecurity, though I suppose one could argue that a more general sense of economic or socioeconomic malaise could activate these latent tendencies of the conservative subset.

EDIT: Some examples