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I get what you're saying but this conflates two issues: people who live in PR and DC have zero voting representation in Congress. Let's fix that and then separa
by eli 6y ago
I get what you're saying but this conflates two issues: people who live in PR and DC have zero voting representation in Congress. Let's fix that and then separately address the problems of the whole system.
- AlgorithmicTime 6y agoThat's by design. And it's not like PR hasn't had numerous referenda.
- robk 6y agoDC should just be absorbed into Maryland
- lalaithion 6y agoAnd while we're add it, let's merge the Dakotas with Wyoming!
- eli 6y agoMerge the Dakotas, make Florida it's own country and admit DC and PR -- you don't have to change the flag!
- eli 6y agoNeither Maryland nor DC wants that and there is no mechanism to force them. Do the residents of DC not deserve their own state?
- spoonjim 6y agoI don’t think they should do PR because it won’t be a reliably Democratic vote. Do you think the Republicans would admit a state that wouldn’t be reliably Republican? Democrats need to play a harder-nosed politics.
- deanCommie 6y agoI wonder if the Republicans could consider policies that would be completely unpalatable to anyone non-Rural/non-White....