Well .. I totally agree with your assessment .. however there are some major problems in getting a person like Maxine Waters out of her congresional seat.
The dems have cleverly gerrymandered the districts so that Maxine is safe - her district (Watts) is MOSTLY BLACK/MOSTLY POOR - therefore, she can do whatever she wants and the people of that area who manage to vote - will ALWAYS vote for her - because she’s black. But .. white people are racist ..??
This is one of the major problems.
I have contended for years and years that we need to have all DISTRICTS based upon COUNTY LINES. This would allow a more reasonable district. While San Diego County is very large - and the dems have tried to rig it to their advantage - I still think it would be better if it were one whole district.
But .. the dems don’t want that plan because THEY WOULD HAVE LESS CHANCE OF WINNING - and they only want to win - regardless of whether many within their district oppose them.
Oh I hate the gerrymandering. My district is shaped like an L and includes our bit of the suburbs to the south tied in with more older suburbs/rural to the east and straight through the CITY to the north of it! (Dems, of course.)
While counties is a nice general idea, I think we could work out a rule where district boundaries can be described with geometry where we need to have sensible right angles, etc, with area covered being significant % greater in absolute # than the perimeter/border, etc. Some mathematical person can describe it. As it is now, what can happen is geometrically “ugly”.
You have the same problem with illegals from Mexico. If you look at the Mexican voter inside of Mexico, they vote for those that they feel will take care of them. Not those that are good for their country. They will do the same here.