There are three categories of people: (1) those who don't think about it much if at all, which is probably the majority of people (2) those who understand it

There are three categories of people: (1) those who don't think about it much if at all, which is probably the majority of people (2) those who understand it but benefit from it so want to keep it (3) those who understand it and want to change it but don't have the influence to get it changed The supreme court ruled that it is 100% kosher for states to gerrymander for the purpose of consolidating power and excluding other parties. It is not legal to gerrymander to disenfranchise minority groups, but frequently they amount to the same thing. The only way to change it would be for some novel legal argument to come before the supreme court that convinces them that their previous decision was wrong (very unlikely), or for Congress to pass a constitutional amendment. The latter is not going to happen because the current system is designed in part to make those seats "safe".