"Ratf**ked?" How to fight back (maybe)

[LearnedHand]

https://open.substack.com/pub/longmemo/p/ratfked-how-to-fight-back-maybe

Long but excellent post by William A Finnegan about what fighting back actually means. He includes really excellent, implementable actions to take over the long term.

Let’s begin here: You don’t win a rigged game by playing it better. You win by making it unplayable.

For the past 15 years, Democrats and progressives have been stuck in a defensive crouch—responding, reacting, rationalizing. Every time the rules changed, they adjusted their expectations. Every time the goalposts moved, they trotted out new moral victories to soften the blow.

It didn’t stop the machinery. It just greased it.

But the hard truth is this: REDMAP wasn’t just a gerrymandering scheme. It was a doctrine. A model of minoritarian rule so airtight, so thoroughly embedded in local, state, and federal systems, that the illusion of democratic process still flickers—while the outcomes are functionally predetermined.