🏛If We’d Listened to James Madison, Ron DeSantis Wouldn’t Be Redrawing His Own Districts Right Now

Hey babes! It’s your resident Fab Gay House Hubby, coming at you from my kitchen counter, where democracy and dinner both get roasted to perfection. And this week’s entrée? Florida, Ron DeSantis, and that old political delicacy called gerrymandering.

Apparently, Governor DeSantis has called a special legislative session to redraw Florida’s House districts again. Because nothing says serving the people like “serving yourself another helping of power.”

But here’s the tea: we could have avoided this entire political soap opera if America had just ratified a forgotten Founding-era gem, James Madison’s Article the First.

📜 The Amendment That Got Ghosted

Before the Bill of Rights became law, sweet Jimmy Madison actually proposed twelve amendments. The first one, yup, the one we ghosted, laid out a formula for how the number of House members should grow as the U.S. population grew.

Once we hit 200 representatives, the rule was simple: one representative for every 50,000 people. If that had happened, Congress today wouldn’t be a cozy 435-member cocktail party. It’d be thousands strong, small, local, loud, and utterly un-gerrymanderable.

Gerrymandering would be gone faster than my patience at a DeSantis press conference.

Imagine trying to draw power maps when every district is a tight-knit group of neighbors who actually know each other. You can’t! The math (and the gossip) would stop it cold.

💬 Smaller Districts, Bigger Accountability

Here’s what Madison’s math would mean for modern democracy:

✨ Local focus. Representatives would actually have to talk to their communities, not just donors in D.C.✨ Harder to rig. Hundreds or thousands of small districts would kill off precision gerrymandering once and for all.✨More diversity. Queer folks, single parents, immigrants, rural voices, everyone gets a real shot.

Small districts, big representation. That’s how you make democracy fabulous again.

🗺 Florida’s Broken Mirror

Let’s be clear: DeSantis isn’t redrawing lines out of civic duty. He’s redrawing them like a man rearranging deck chairs on a sinking cruise ship.

This isn’t just Florida’s problem; it’s America’s. Our population has exploded since 1929, but the House hasn’t grown in nearly a century. We’re stuffed into oversized districts like bad shapewear, while state leaders game the lines for power.

If Article the First had been ratified, this kind of map-based manipulation wouldn’t even be on the menu.

🧠 Time to Finish Madison’s Homework

Madison saw all this coming, he warned that too few representatives would make government elitist and detached. And honey, he was soright.

Reviving or updating his first amendment would reconnect power to people. Imagine a world where Congress actually looked, sounded, and felt like America.

And after watching Ron DeSantis act like Florida’s personal cartographer of chaos, reclaiming Madison’s math feels like a patriotic palate cleanse.

💋 The Fab Gay House Hubby’s Sign-Off

Democracy is like a good marriage, it only works when you tend to it, spice it up, and remember why you fell in love in the first place.

So call your reps. Call your friends. Call out the nonsense when you see it. Because nothing, and I mean nothing, looks better on us than a functioning democracy.

Now go pour yourself a democracy-sized martini. 🍸 You’ve earned it.