Shitty legislation like this wouldn’t happen. (Because more voters are liberal.) Instead, we have voters who only vote when they’re angry. If you don’t vote regularly for your party, you are not giving your electeds the popular support they need to pursue more progressive policies. Why should they stick their necks out when they’ll lose their seats in the next term? If they know you won’t show up, but the wingnuts will, what do you suppose will happen?

This is why encouraging people to vote, every single time, is the most important thing we can do. Even those gerrymandered districts only hold up to low turnout — they don’t mean squat if everyone votes:

The House on Wednesday with little fanfare passed legislation that would protect major donors like the Koch brothers and Tom Steyer from having to pay gift taxes on huge donations to secret money political groups.

The legislation, which now heads to the Senate, is seen by fundraising operatives as removing one of the few remaining potential obstacles to unfettered big-money spending by nonprofit groups registered under a section of the Tax Code — 501(c) — that allows them to shield their donors’ identities.

Critics decry such groups as corrupting, but they have played an increasingly prominent role in recent elections, and they’re expected to spend huge sums in 2016 and, while fundraising operatives say most donors do not pay taxes on their donations to so-called 501(c) groups, the law is somewhat ambiguous on whether gift taxes could be assessed. That’s left donors fearing that such gifts could bring scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service — which, in fact, has launched probes of major groups’ donors in recent years to determine whether they improperly avoided paying gift taxes.