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If the Democrats win nothing will change.
They will continue to push the overton window, as they keep the seat warm for the next right wing fascist.
This is what Democrats have done with power over the last 50 years.
We either get ranked choice voting going, or elect a 3rd party, otherwise we stay on the same path the Duopoly was designed to keep us trapped on.
How do you have ranked choice for a two party system?
Ranked choice eliminates the two party hold, genius.
Democrats are praising ICE and defending genocide. What in the world makes you think they’d do anything progressive, if they won a majority?
Does DC want to be or even have a reason to be its own state? I thought it specifically wasn't a state to be "fair" somehow.
Peurto Rico, OTOH, certainly wants to (or wanted to previously; IDK how they feel currently). Also Guam and the US Virgin Islands.
I mean I imagine all the people living there would like a say in federal politics.
My memory is hazy, but I read about this once because it's a really weird situation. The founders wanted this area to be just be a simple neutral meeting place for politicians, so that the area itself wouldn't be vulnerable to political fuckery. That time has long passed as not only did D.C. turn into a city, it's a full-blown metropolis at this point. People live and work there but can't vote in certain things for really no reason in this modern day.
Oh there was political fuckery before our masonic forefathers laid the cornerstones. The reason it's on the border of Maryland and Virginia was to placate the southern states, otherwise the capitol would have stayed in New York.
It's something like, more people live in Washington, D.C. than in Wyoming.
Yes but they won't do it.
They should offer it and both DC and PR should get to vote on the issue.
I'm pretty sure PR has already voted on the issue more than once.
True but I feel like if it's offered to DC it should also be offered again to PR to be fair and in case sentiment has shifted.
I am going to pick a bone about Puerto Rico. Why do some Americans would like to try to give statehood to Puerto Rico? Literally half of Puerto Ricans can't decide on whether they want to be fully independent, or completely integrate with the US! Let the Puerto Ricans decisively settle it themselves, before mainland Americans debate whether they should grant the island statehood.
they should. they wont.
It’ll mess up the flag (51 or 52 stars don’t go into a regular grid), so they’ll need a one-in-one-out policy. A start could be merging the Dakotas and Carolinas.
I suggest we kick out Florida or Texas. Or both.
Having 2 festering heeps of authoritarianism next to your country is less than ideal. A strong handed attempt to reform them would be better, like an external board to determine their districts (though it'd require an amendment to the constitution)
I think that a 51 star flag could look pretty cool.
hmm, I think they all look like ass
It's crazy that there was a whole shitshow about taxation without representation (though the colonists certainly cost money starting shit with native peoples), yet over 200 years later, there are still people taxed without representation.
Two words: Douglass Commonwealth