Yes and no? It’s politically true that DC statehood would help Democrats. But it’s also morally true that we have 700,000 United States residents without any representation in government for no practical reason at this point other than partisanship.
It’s morally correct to make DC a state. It happens to also benefit Democrats and I’m sure many people only care about it because of that, but that shouldn’t matter because it’s the right thing to do.
Yeah, I think PR would have wild federal politics for a bit (tho prob vote Dem for POTUS), but we literally created Nevada so Lincoln could have a new pro-Union state for the 1864 election. The process was so rushed, they sent the state constitution to DC via telegram.
Basically, if an area already operates as its own entity and wants to become a state, okay. We’ve done so many more cynical moves throughout history — Nevada wasn’t even the worst. Look up why we have two Dakotas!
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I beg of you all to please talk to anyone not in Silverlake.
People on this site believe, in earnest, that all that was in the original CARES Act was *just* $1200 checks and nothing else and all that’s in this bill is *just* $1400 checks. Really great job to everyone On Here who helped propagate that charade!
I still see a lot of people aghast that governments still have high approval ratings after rising deaths (Tories in Ontario, UK Tories, even Trump last year to an extent), but it seems like a fundamentally global phenomenon where voters aren't blaming governments for deaths.
Trump absolutely stretched the limit of this phenomenon to the point where he did suffer more than any other global leader, but it also was exactly the type of scenario that underscored literally all of his character flaws. You could not script a worse crisis for him to manage.
Compare that to Boris, or Doug Ford, or Cuomo -- people are willing to say "it's a crisis, it's not *their* fault there's a pandemic" and have a seemingly hard time connecting policy failures to deaths.
I still can't believe that McCarthy made his members take this vote. (I mean, I can, he's not very bright)
Staffer: "We're hemorrhaging voters who don't like conspiracy theories and QAnon"
McCarthy: "Okay, so here's what we'll do: we'll make each of our members vote on whether a conspiracy theorist should be on the budget and education committee."
Staffer: "Uh"
I have no idea if this will be effective. But perhaps "your rep voted to put a 9/11 truther on the education committee" has some salience for people.
This person isn’t serious (they worked for the Daily Caller) but lefties really need to look in the mirror and realize their “all they gave us were $1200 checks” rhetoric didn’t at all articulate how much stimulus was in the CARES Act... including enhanced UI benefits
I voted for Bernie in the primary and had to watch some of his very online boosters misrepresent a bill that helped millions as “just” giving $1200 and nothing else. It’s the same rhetoric all over again.
To be clear, any Dem running here is going to be running uphill -- Dems have fielded real candidates in 2016 (including Donovan's predecessor in CO SD 05), 2018, and 2020 *and* with the addition of an 8th district in CO, it's likely there'll be a red district on the western slope
Not to mention, the general issues with it being a Biden midterm and Biden didn't win the current configuration of CO-03 (Trump won it 52-46, and there's a lot of animosity in the rural areas vs the liberal ski towns and Donovan is from Vail). That being said... Boebert is crazy.