Ohio gerrymandering set the stage for this shameful travesty and betrayal across America

By: David DeWitt

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: May 15, 2026

Words: 877

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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In the much bandied aphorism, “A society grows great when men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.”

What happens to a society when selfish, short-sighted, narrow-minded, egomaniacal, power-obsessed men cut down every tree in sight? And future generations will never know their shade?

History will recognize this generation of America as the one that rolled back the Civil Rights era.

Our time will be known to posterity as a …

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