Originally Posted by
iahflyr
It’s not about gerrymandering state boundaries to give your party more power. You could just as easily split LA County in 3 states that all vote blue and have a bigger population than those rural areas listed above.
It’s about giving representation to US Citizens who are not represented. Why does a US citizen who lives in DC or Puerto Rico not have representation in the senate? If another district or territory the US that was conservative desired statehood (and wasn’t already represented), I would be all for it.
But then again, that’s maybe why I left the GOP about 10 years ago. Hypocrisy is not in my vocabulary.
Can you sit there and type with a straight face that the Dems would be pushing the idea of statehood for PR and DC if they thought it would hurt them? They arrogantly presume they are shoo-ins for their party. If the shoe was on the other foot, they would be screaming bloody murder to stop it.
Face it, there’s plenty of hypocrisy to go around.