Anonymous wrote:Also conservatives will say:

"DC sucks / You can't trust DC / Corruption / Developers / Gentrification / <something about racial division> / guns / traffic / mayor" etc etc

Get lost with that stuff.

DC is a vibrant world city that is a great place to live and has more diversity and more public-service oriented upstanding smart people than almost anywhere.

If you were going to pick a single place in the country to make into many states to save our country, it would be DC.

If you don't like DC, don't live here and don't post here.
And if you're a troll that posts enmity about DC to polarize this message board and derail real discussion, please also don't post.


viva DC!

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Anonymous wrote:We haven’t had a civil war I quite some time, so maybe we are due.

I hope you are a troll, otherwise this is an incredibly stupid comment.

Anonymous wrote:We haven’t had a civil war I quite some time, so maybe we are due.

Anonymous wrote:Just be aware that because the GOP have packed the courts with illegitimate Trump judges (including 2 illegitimate SCOTUS Trump judges), this would certainly be rejected by the Supreme Court.

So the first step is for liberals to start ignoring Gorsuch and Kavanaugh's illegitimate votes. When a president steals an election by fraud, illegality, and a ton of help from Russia, his judges are fake. Fake president, fake judges.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah sure. And we'll to the same thing with every one-stoplight town in every red state on the map. Our states, our rules. Just like DC.

For most of the twenty-first century, the world’s oldest surviving democracy has been led by a chief executive who received fewer votes than his opponent in an election for the position.
The first of these executives started a war based on false pretenses that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
The second — a serial abuser of women who hired as his campaign manager a lobbyist for violent dictatorships — authorized an immigration policy that forcibly separated migrant children from their families and indefinitely detained them in facilities described as “concentration camps.”

Recent events have highlighted some of the ways in which federal elections in the United States are profoundly undemocratic and, thus, profoundly unfair.
The Electoral College — when it contravenes the popular vote — is an obvious example of this unfairness. But it is just one of the mathematically undemocratic features in the Constitution. Equal representation of states in the Senate, for example, gives citizens of low-population states undue influence in Congress. Conversely, American citizens residing in U.S. territories have no meaningful representation in Congress or the Electoral College.

While a step in the right direction, these proposals are inadequate. To create a system where every vote counts equally, the Constitution must be amended. To do this, Congress should pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only a few core federal buildings and then admit the rest of the District’s 127 neighborhoods as states. These states — which could be added with a simple congressional majority — would add enough votes in Congress to ratify four amendments: (1) a transfer of the Senate’s power to a body that represents citizens equally; (2) an expansion of the House so that all citizens are represented in equal-sized districts; (3) a replacement of the Electoral College with a popular vote; and (4) a modification of the Constitution’s amendment process that would ensure future amendments are ratified by states representing most Americans.

Radical as this proposal may sound, it is no more radical than a nominally democratic system of government that gives citizens widely disproportionate voting power depending on where they live. The people should not tolerate a system that is manifestly unfair; they should instead fight fire with fire, and use the unfair provisions of the Constitution to create a better system.