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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.
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.
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.
Yes but they won't do it.
Two words: Douglass Commonwealth
We'll probably never have legitimate elections again in this country.
They at least want the idea that we can't trust the results, no matter what they are, as a standard. After watching videos from DEFCON, I definitely don't trust the last election results.
Yep.
They won't, but they should.
Chances Republicans lose the Senate -near 0. For Congress to pass anything it would have to go through both houses, so even if they somehow flipped the house (which may be unlikely with all the gerrymandering happening) it wouldn't be possible.
I think they will lose both the Senate and the House because of import tarriffs, farms going out of business, and cutting medicare and snap. Small and medium size businesses that are heavily dependant on imports will be strained under these tariffs.
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming.
We need 5 of those to flop to Democrat, without a single Democrat seat flopping.
Seats I think they maybe could able to win: Maine, North Carolina.
That would put Republicans at 51 seats + the VP That's assuming the Dems fill all the empty slots as well and keep the independents agreeing with them.
Yes. I’d go a step further and give native Americans representation similar to statehood too.
The U.S. government recognizes 574 American Indian tribes and Alaska Native entities. Give each of them two senators, one representative, and three electoral votes, and suddenly the white man's government becomes a minority adjunct to the new native government. I'd say let's give it a try and see how it goes!
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 think that a 51 star flag could look pretty cool.
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)
Disagree entirely. Reform is less possible than eviction. If the federal government said “we will allow it” then Florida and Texas would overwhelmingly vote to Amerexit.
And shit, let’s just let the south have all of it back. Let them reform themselves. Slavery? Not my problem.
That's a lack of empathy that I cannot agree with.
Straight white middle class male?
So for not wanting people to be literally enslaved you are profiling me as a straight white middle class male. Wow.
No, for not wanting those nut jobs to split off and do their own thing, leaving the rest of us to enjoy life… that is why. Am I wrong?
“Empathy” hah.
Their own thing is oppressing people. We should stop that much as far as we have power to , and if we can force them out of the union that's likely from a position where we would.
You would allow the people in those states to be oppressed just to make your own life easier. Yes, you are wrong
You’re a man and middle class. You live in Chicago. You work for a big company. You have a car. The only thing in question is your race and sexuality. Rolling the dice on sexuality being heterosexual. So you’re not white? I could scroll more and find out, but just admin it’s all true.
And if you were a heterosexual middle class white male, you wouldn’t be able to comprehend why I want them not part of my country.
You're a moron. Of course you want to expell the horrifying bigots. However, leaving those left there to die is not good. I work for a big company??? Yes, I do. As a part time worker, the fuck? Target employees also work for a big company, does that make them have money?
Having a $3k car does not make a guy middle class either.
I am white. I'm saying that your logic in reasoning as such is ridiculous.
The cost of your car doesn’t mean your household isn’t middle class. Lots of people with money don’t waste their money on cars.
Doesn't Puerto Rico not want statehood?
Unfortunately, they made that known by boycotting the 2020 vote for statehood. The vote makes it look like they want to be a state and that might be all that congress bothers to look at.
Yeah. Puerto Rico is going through a period of discovering itself after the first Trump presidency. Maria fucked the island, Biden did nothing different than Trump (who at least gave out paper towels), and PR is still suffering from rolling power outages. Luma, the power company, is owned by a company in Texas and has the money to fix it but hasn't after almost a decade.
PR wants to be in charge of its own future. A power company that extracts money but makes no changes is a colonial enterprise. So much of Puerto Rico is being peeled off for moneyed interests that it makes sense they want little to do with America.
It’s not just the House, the Senate and the President also need to be on board. The House passing a resolution would at least illustrate who’s holding things up, though.
The Senate needs to be board, but not the president. The president doesn't have veto power as it is not a bill. Ratification of a state is just Congress. (And there is no way the Republicans will lose both sides of Congress)
The United States is a fascist country.
Wondering what the minority party would do if it regained power is not a relevant use of time imo.
Statehood or independence for Puerto Rico and while we're at it the Pacific islands and any other colonial possessions.
DC can be rolled into Virginia just fine as the compromise.
gop would never agree to it in the senate. Also old guard DNC doesnt seem keen on giving statehood as would the gop, it will just include too many problems for them
At the very very least they should at least have a single voting representative for fucks sake.