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>To offer statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

Let's hope this wacky idea doesn't become reality!

Can you explain your position on this? It seems like a no-brainer, as those places are filled with U.S. citizens without representation, but maybe there’s a cogent argument against it?
Puerto Rico should be an independent country!

Statehood for D.C.? Another tiny state with two senators?

D.C. has a larger population than Wyoming. I agree with you on Puerto Rico though.
> Puerto Rico should be an independent country!

They keep voting for statehood, and the opposition boycotting those votes to delegitimize them favors the present status quo. Why should it be independent?

Because I am an anti-imperialist!

Why should the people of Puerto Rico be subsumed into a foreign power?

> Why should the people of Puerto Rico be subsumed into a foreign power?

Because they overwhelmingly prefer it, differing mainly on the exact terms of association?

Why shouldn't they be part of the country they choose to be part of?

(Also, Puerto Rico has been a US territory since the Spanish-American war and has never been a sovereign state, so the “foreign power” thing is...dubious. Puerto Rico is about as American as the territory gained in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 50 years earlier.)

I mean I gotta say I have heard more compelling arguments about various things
They already have two senators. It’s just that the senators in question have no official vote.