Here's what's going on re: Puerto rico & statehood. My opinion is that we should always honor the views of Puerto ricans. That said, it's not entirely uncomplicated. 52% is a majority & I think we should go w/ it. But I get why many are concerned w/ the views of the other 48%.
https://twitter.com/magi_jay/status/1374405368831307776
If you're concerned w/ honoring the views of Puerto ricans, it can feel uncomfortable to overly interpret a slim majority. It would be more comfortable if there had been a super-majority. But, I would ask: do we really want to make a super-majority a *requirement?*
Such a requirement seems like an easy way to place Puerto rican status in perpetual limbo.
Some have been critical of the 2020 referendum as being a two-choice (A/B) poll: "A: yes: statehood vs. B: no: other." I think this criticism is overblown. Given option "B" was not fixed choice (it was just "no"), this wouldn't overly inflate the responses to A.
2-choice polls are problematic when they force people to make a choice between two binary (fixed) options when multiple (unfixed) options exist. That's not what this poll did.
To decontextualize, if I asked, in 2019, if you wanted "Moulton or Trump" for Prez, that would inflate Moulton support bc all "No Trump" would go to him, despite other options. If I asked, instead, "Moulton or Other," it would be a more accurate measure of true "Yes: Moulton"
In case I haven't been clear here, I am trying to argue that honoring the results of the 2020 referendum seems like the *best* way to honor Puerto rican voices. I don't really understand the rationale for drawing out the process further.
I get the discomfort over interpreting small majorities, but demanding something else seems like a way to draw this issue out forever. If we let years pass, people will argue the 2020 results are invalid. We also have to assume Puerto ricans knew the stakes. 52% pro-statehood won
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