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It seems to me that gerrymandering is the bigger issue that needs to be fixed.

I don't know enough about the US to understand why it's accepted. It's a blatant disabling of democracy.

It's hard to change it when the people who can actually change the law are the very ones who benefit from the status quo. In some states it could be done through an "initiated constitutional amendment" (meaning one that goes directly to popular vote, bypassing the legislature), but most states don't have that.

Very few people know what it is, even fewer understand why it's a problem, and fewer yet care about it. I've never seen someone run for an office I was voting for with "reduce or eliminate gerrymandering" as a position so there's no real opportunity to exercise your vote that way.

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