Nationwide, there are more gerrymandered seats for Republicans than for Democrats. Many blue states have independent commissions to draw district lines. Either outlaw gerrymandering nationwide or all blue states need to redraw districts before the 2026 elections just to get back to a fair baseline.

people are also just being manipulated emotionally by politicians and big corpos. The migration fear mongering is a great example. It's not one-sided either. Every time a politician or corpo uses emotions, they're manipulating.

he also mentioned that both sides of issues are expressed. what the left and right lately do is to represent all of the other side as just the extreme and stupid when often times both have legitimate concens or just have misunderstanding or are misinformed/manipulated emotionally.

Well, Coquitlam is more like low density, high taxes, and stable services imo. But density certainly is improving fast.