re: #687 triple

True. This is under the assumption districts are laid out by a computer or something sensible, and not by the people who stand to benefit from it, which is literally insane.

But when you have people going “sign the pledge not to raise the debt ceiling”, or they’ll fund your opponent in re-election, wouldn’t it be nice to just say to these fools, “dude, fuck you, im not running. fuck yo pledge.”

Not really because those idiots would just vote against the next person from your party who runs for election /the person with views furthest from you.

You may not be in danger, but your parties future in that electoral area can still be at the mercy of extremists.