Gerrymandering and malapportionment

With Congress's approval rating at just 16 percent, one wonders how in the holy hell people get reelected. Some of it is just voter laziness and/or voter fraud. The other part is corruption in our government. Many Congressional representatives use a process called gerrymandering to get reelected. In this post it is important to understand the difference between gerrymandering and malapportionment. Malapportionment does not have to relate to the boundaries at all, while gerrymandering specifically relates to the boundaries. There are several ways to gerrymander: Cracking, Packing, Hijacking, and Kidnapping. Cracking spreads the voters of particular types into many different districts to stop them from having a large voting bloc. Packing concentrates many voters of one type into a single electoral district to prevent them from influencing other districts. Packing and Cracking are often used together, especially when the party controlling the districts has a state-wide minority. Hijacking redraws two districts in order to make two incumbents of the same political party run against each other, ensuring one will be eliminated. This leaves the remaining district to be won by the other party. Kidnapping moves areas where a certain elected official has support to another district, which makes it harder for that official to win with the new electorate. This is used against officials who have support in many urban areas; their supporters are moved to another district, and the new electorate is more rural. These tactics are used together the majority of the time. Who would do such a thing? The majority party in Congress, usually. The districts are selected by the Census Committee, and who controls who's in committees? The majority party. Currently, Republicans. With their majority in the House they managed to gerrymander their way to a majority in the Senate. Point is, politicians are liars, regardless of party affiliation. Obama is a liar. Boehner is a liar. McConnell is a turtle (seriously, the guy's too old to be human). Hillary Clinton did not have sexual intercourse with that woman. You see my point. What can we do to stop it? Nothing. That's right, nothing. Since Republicans control the committees, the only way Congress can change now is if they focus all their energy on cheating for the presidency. If they get the presidency, they'll do the same thing Obama is doing, except they'll order a mass execution of all Mexicans to solve the problem.