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Have you lived there? I have. It's simply nothing like a state. It's not even a whole city. Statehood for DC under the current system would make no more sense than statehood for Manhattan.
I live about an hour away, so I've spent a little time there. At the end of the day I think they're better off as a state than as a district with no representation in either legislative chamber. And at the end of the day, it's either statehood or what they have now.
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You're making an awfully big assumption about why people might have reasons to disagree with you on a certain issue. I have no interest in protecting the Republicans' advantage in anything.
Well, people can have their reasons, but I don't think any of them are real reasons against it. Like, they would fall apart in a logical analysis of what is actually possible if the person had good motives for the country and the people of DC.
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I have always advocated getting rid of the electoral college, since I learned about it as a pre-teen in Civics class.
Okay, but that's simply not possible right now. Republicans can prevent it and would prevent it, because it's locked in by the Constitution.
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I would also support getting rid of the Senate.
Again, not possible.
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I would even support getting rid of statehood completely; I think it's an antiquated system that serves no good purpose currently.
Same problem.
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But I would not support making DC into a state.
Do you have any other methods for attempting to make the Senate and the electoral college more proportional in their representation of the will of the people? Any that aren't contingent upon changing the Constitution, which the GOP can block?
We're in crisis mode right now, and it is absolutely necessary to make our federal government more proportionally representative of the will of the people all across the country. Otherwise, the GOP can permanently exert its will on everyone in the US despite representing a minority of the population.