really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform
--filibuster
--electoral college
--court reform
--dc and pr statehood
--new voting rights act
--gerrymandering
Puerto Ricans do not uniformly want statehood, the party that drives statehood is a group of authoritarian scammers who have run the island into the ground while perpetuating racist stereotypes of the value of Puerto Rico and its people.
They run it into the ground with the help of American cabotage laws and the Jones Act, and then when it's unlivable and the federal government leaves us to die, they argue that only American tax dollars can save us from a situation largely created by Americans.
