Wednesday March 8, 2023; 1:04 PM EST
- It's hard to know how to disrupt certain parts of the chicken-egg-chicken-egg process they have underway in Hoosier politics. In Indiana, top members of one party gerrymander themselves a supermajority in both chambers of the Statehouse. It still looks like a representative assembly, but you can't put pressure on it through voting. Voting still looks like voting, but the results are known ahead of time by party in most districts. The local papers have next to no reporters and are likely owned by distant asset-stripping corporations. Law firms let people like Trump know they're willing to press bogus lawsuits on his behalf at a time of national crisis, and they don't mind helping with the gerrymandering either. Democratic institutions have become shells and façades, have been captured, processes meant to keep the system open have been closed. The party in power doesn't care if people grow to hate the political system and tune out. The party out of power still likes its old-boy, insider games. Where is the point in this corrupt system that is most vulnerable to sustained pressure, and how is that pressure to be created and sustained? It's hard to say. It's there somewhere.#