Progressive Politics

You have . . . a point.

Squish the Dakotas together and make PR a state, we wouldn't even need a new flag.

No silly, we COMBINE some of the 18 low-population states so we can go back to 48! One nation 6x8, with a better balance in representation! Or 45 could be nice as well.

This needs to be a meme.

They are exempt from federal income tax.

this is also why the license plates in DC have the slogan “taxation without representation”

They vote on it rather frequently. They do at the moment but it does waffle a bit.

Potentially. Puerto Rico is also a religious state.

Personally, I think we should force the island to choose its fate. We can't keep the status quo going forever. The idea of a nation like the US maintaining a colony with millions of people on it is a historical anachronism. It was a mistake to ever create the colony in the first place, and it's a mistake to keep it going. We should force the Puerto Ricans to make a choice. A new binding referendum. Pass a statehood bill that grants statehood to PR based on the results of a final binding vote. And that referendum has two and only two choices on it - statehood or independence. They're either all the way in, or all the way out. The choice is theirs.

I know in principle that, from a self-determination perspective, that Puerto Ricans should have a full menu of choices available to it, including staying a territory. But it's high time for the US to get out of the colony business. US territory status should be reserved for holdings that are so sparsely populated that they would never possibly make a viable state. But Puerto Rico is just way too large to justify holding as a territory.

We need to solve this problem. And I think we should have a final binding referendum, one where statehood or independence will automatically happen based on the results of that referendum.

Their most recent vote in 2020 results in favor of statehood (not by much). However, Congress has to make it happen, not Puerto Rico.

About 50-60% want statehood, it’s the majority opinion, but a lot of people like not having income taxes

Number of stripes isn't going to change; it'll stay at 13.

50 stars is boomer shit. Time for 51.

Merge north and south dakota

I’m more interested in PR having representation then how it affects my own opinions.

Irony of the situation that the same Republican Party hates Puerto Ricans so much. I hope PR folks understand that when repubes say migrants are rapists, druggists, and murderers they also mean you - even though you’re not migrants - MAGA doesn’t give a fuck to the fact that you’re citizens.

Dems don’t want it to have statehood either. It would make Puerto Rico less exploitable, and the donors don’t want that.