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> That sounds like it is working as the founding fathers intended. As that gives rural states a voice as well. This is why residents of DC and Puerto Rico should be allowed to choose representation in Congress, because as it is, about 4M US citizens are paying taxes without any voting influence in Congress.
> This is why residents of DC ... should be allowed to choose representation in Congress I agree, but noticed that when suggestions of combining DC with surrounding Maryland come up, many folks go silent. This gives the appearance of just using DC to get extra Democrat votes.
DC isn't just a group of people, it is the city and its unique architecture, culture, subcultures, etc., it's definitely not a suburb of Baltimore unless your goal is to sustain their lack of legislative influence.
The problem is they are burdened with taxes without representation in Congress, and your bias against actually solving what many might say the Founders would consider evil is ultimately a matter of their political leanings — because the residents happen to be tolerant and progressive, their votes and rights must be stifled. If DC was red, it'd be a different story.
Tribalism is only one of many problems with Republicans and the Republican Party, that blind loyalty is above honesty and fairness. I always saw the bigger problem as 99% of voting Republicans are literally voting against their current personal economic interests in anticipation of the day when they will be rich (say, earning $400K+/yr or having $2M in investments, business, real estate or bonds) and served by economically and socially destructive goals and absurd ideals such as the fewest having the most.
If everyone suddenly always voted in their personal economic interests, Republicans wouldn't be able to win any more elections, because it would just be the 5 richest guys voting Republican. It is stark to realize, nevertheless true that the Republican Party, at its heart, if its heart is those whose interests are always best served by Republican agenda, it'd just be those half dozen or so rich guys. I'm sure they appreciate your vote, but not enough to help you improve or even sustain your economic situation.
Sucks for everyone that this is really whats happening, by and large the poorer are propping up the richer completely divorced from their economic situation and the awareness of the influence they have to change it with their vote.
The Republican Party uses a couple of distraction, guns and abortion, and taps into that unfortunate obsession in rural and suburban and urban areas of my team, which sometimes turns comically and other times tragically violent. Yelling and screaming, throwing things, fighting.
It is embarrassing what Republicans have done lately... the 2000 election, McConnell stonewalling Garland's appointment, electing Trump and all of that absurd shit, and now the Supreme Court stacked by a corrupt administration is proving that it has lost all credibility, and ensured that the State will cause young women to suffer and die, unnecessarily. Eventually and ultimately, the majority will correct the court, but it will be decades.