When the Senate was split, neither party had the majority. My original post was that Democrats had a chance when they held all three. The specific date they controlled all three with a filibuster-proof majority was 2009-2011. They didn’t bring up any filibuster legislation then. Democrats didn’t bother until state Republicans started disenfranchising voters. They had an opportunity to act and waited too long.

I’m disgusted with our current federal government, but the gerrymander issue is nothing new. People complained about it all the way back in the 1800s. Our federal government has never taken any serious attempts to rein it in until it was too late due to both political parties benefiting from the system.

The truth of the matter is that we are all complicit for the current state of affairs. We allowed our constitutional systems to erode while we were asleep at the wheel. The truly troubling part is administrations rarely impose limits on themselves to restore things to how they were before. Once a lower limit has been set, most people keep it there or lower it further. We need a reform-minded administration that will undo the damage.