The US has a 51st state, … or not? Mess of the Dems
The Democrats in the House, with the support of President Joe Biden, have just voted (perfectly in line with party lines) to approve the establishment of the "State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth" as our 51st state today. Should we add a star on American flags? Not yet…
Debate on the bill was relatively limited in the House, where rough hearings accelerated the whole approval process. The fear of "Filibustering" was considerable
What the House lacked design was the recognition, let alone consideration, of alternatives to creating the first Vatican-like city-state in the country. Above all, there was no discussion about what the citizens of the district could obtain from an alternative to statehood: relegation, that is, even the reduction to a simple "federal city", the costs of which, however, would be covered by the whole community.
In reality there has not been a real discussion on how citizens can be represented at the federal level, There was only a race of the Dems to create the new state for a trivial reason: that of grabbing two new senators, certainly Democrats, given the political inclination of the district. No one has raised the question, especially among the Dems, whether this is to break a relationship between the capital and the states.
The bill is unlikely to succeed in the Senate and another year will be wasted without discussing anything serious, just wasting time. Nobody cares about the citizens and the state, but only the interests of the political party. Nobody has to gain from this.
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