'I’m suing ...because I don’t want to live in a one-party state. Our democracy works best ...when people with different viewpoints work together to find cross-partisan solutions,' writes Stefanie Condie of Mormon Women for Ethical Government.
Many state legislatures, including the Democrats in New York, have recently used gerrymandering tactics to maximize their own power. The Utah legislators took their abuse of power a step further: They repealed a 2018 citizen initiative, eliminating the binding anti-gerrymandering requirements it created so the Legislature would later be free to reject a set of voting maps drawn up by an impartial citizens’ commission.
I’m suing the Utah Legislature because in a democracy, a referendum is the purest expression there is of the will of the people. If elected officials feel entitled to overturn a referendum because they didn’t like the result, I can only conclude that those officials don’t understand the concept of democracy. Or perhaps they just don’t believe in it.
An obsessive focus on outcomes leads politicians to say to themselves, “The ends justify the means,” as they use antidemocratic methods to aggregate power. Protecting our democratic processes, over and over again, will save us from tyranny. In a democracy, the process is everything. On behalf of all the women and children who suffered under the one-party regimes of the 20th century, I’m here to say this: Concentrating all the power in one party is a catastrophically bad idea. It always leads to corruption. It always leads to abuse. In the short term, it’s oppressive to some portion of the population. In the long term, it has disastrous consequences for the whole population.
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