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Puerto Rico should be an independent country! Statehood for D.C.? Another tiny state with two senators?
by DaveExeter 5y ago
Puerto Rico should be an independent country!
Statehood for D.C.? Another tiny state with two senators?
- cmendel 5y agoD.C. has a larger population than Wyoming. I agree with you on Puerto Rico though.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Puerto Rico should be an independent country! They keep voting for statehood, and the opposition boycotting those votes to delegitimize them favors the present status quo. Why should it be independent?
- DaveExeter 5y agoBecause I am an anti-imperialist! Why should the people of Puerto Rico be subsumed into a foreign power?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Why should the people of Puerto Rico be subsumed into a foreign power? Because they overwhelmingly prefer it, differing mainly on the exact terms of association? Why shouldn't they be part of the country they choose to be part of? (Also, Puerto Rico has been a US territory since the Spanish-American war and has never been a sovereign state, so the “foreign power” thing is...dubious. Puerto Rico is about as American as the territory gained in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 50 years earlier.)
- hairofadog 5y agoI mean I gotta say I have heard more compelling arguments about various things
- bradknowles 5y agoThey already have two senators. It’s just that the senators in question have no official vote.