Don't be obtuse. The original map deliberately favored Republicans. The new map is more fair than the original. A fair map "aids" Democrats when compared to an unfair map which is biased in the Republicans' favor.
This is not the same as the Democrats "gerrymandering" in their favor.
Fair enough! My compliments on your character's backstory - that sounds fun!
Also, I would think that a second big bang would be morally neutral on a universal scale, but that's not much comfort for the people currently existing...
You may know about the Bessemer process, but how would your character discover this process? Unless your character is an accomplished blacksmith or engineer, I'd call metagaming.
... I know that's a bit of a buzzkill, but that's where my mind goes.
Y'know I'm a patriot and all, but I wish we didn't spend so much of our national budget on the Meme Force. Let's stop shipping our memes overseas and start meming in our local communities
Episode 10 of the podcast Let's Learn Everything! starts with a discussion of this incident and the ways that epidemiologists have studied it to draw real-world parallels.
It's a great comedy/science podcast; I strongly recommended it.
Depression jokes are OUT.
Hyperbolic overconfidence jokes are IN.
Sadness CANNOT overtake you anymore. You are simply TOO POWERFUL and TOO SEXY.