There is nothing easy about drawing districts...what fundamental rule is there that says it is better for my household to be grouped with the politically-polar-opposite area south of me rather than the more politically similar group east of me? Is it bad if each district contains demographically homogenous groups that vote as a bloc? How else to introduce diversity than by organizing districts differently than traditional neighborhood boundaries?

Obviously, there are some who will attempt to game the system? But one candidate's gerrymander is another's fair apportionment...to dismiss it all as a big conspiracy controlled by indefeatable evil interests is to practice the worst kind of intellectual ambivalence.