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
Referendums for statehood in both. I firmly believe DC would pass handily, PR is a more open question, but BINDING referendums would settle the issue.
I don't have a say because I don't live in DC, but living *next* to DC I would be like "GUYS PLEASE BE A STATE" ;)
Puerto Rico is a colony and as such deserves a self determination process that gives them the choice of independence before joining the indivisible union. DC had always been an integral part of the US and there is no clear alternative so an act of Congress is sufficient.
DC should stand for Douglass Commonwealth but it should just be Douglass Commonwealth not “State of Douglass Commonwealth,” Washington should be the name of the municipality so it’s still “Washington, DC.”
