Here is a step-by-step guide to how Gerrymandering works.
STEP 1:
Exhausted lawmaker thinks it might be nice to never have to campaign or listen to voters in district ever again
STEP 2:
Candidates meet with their constituents and decide which ones they’d like to hear from
STEP 3:
Democrats are lured into blue districts with promise of functional school systems
STEP 4:
Cartographer has only clandestine meeting of life
STEP 5:
Child’s drawing of a seahorse traced onto a map of North Carolina
STEP 6:
Terrified lawmakers cower in corner of lab and shout “It’s alive!” after bringing freakish composite district into being
STEP 7:
Lawmaker in gerrymandered district undergoes brief existential crisis upon realizing nothing he says or does has any consequences
STEP 8:
Voter gives up
STEP 9:
Unstoppable political dynasty established in 300-mile-long, 10-foot-wide strip of Arizona