Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- What if we told you that the
gerrymandering of congressional districts has nothing to do with
political polarization in Washington? Gerrymandering didn’t have
anything to do with the shutdown, or the battles over the debt
ceiling, or Obamacare. In fact, the accepted view that
politically based redistricting led to our state of
intransigence isn’t just incorrect; it’s silly.
The real reason for our increasingly divided political
system is much simpler: The right wing of the Republican Party
has embraced a fundamentalist version of free-market capitalism
and succeeded in winning elections. (The Democrats have moved to
the left, but less so.)
