The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(04-09-2021, 12:10 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The inadequacy of the people in confederate America (Classic Xer's America) certainly matches that of the previous civil war era. Our new crisis leader Joe Biden certainly aims to manage the crisis well, and is doing pretty good job. He is more like George Washington; steady and practical and dignified, although not as charismatic or eloquent as Lincoln and FDR. The problem is the supporting cast. As long as our country is not split, as under Lincoln, the Republican Party (which has switched to become the confederate Party) is given too much power by our system to block progress. A few Senate Democrats are representing Republican states, so their ability to act is also limited. We may have to separate so that the blue half of the country can make progress. Only as the separate red half later sees itself falling into total ruin will it then petition to join back. Unless enough voters in red and purple states can send enough representatives to congress to support Biden, end the filibuster, pass all the voting rights in the For the People Act, give DC and PR and maybe Guam two senators, reform or abolish the electoral college, reform immigration, and if needed reform and pack the Court, stalemate will continue, and I don't think we can deal with our existential threats without separating ourselves from our retrograde half.

While I agree, I don't see Guam making the cut, to be fully honest about it. The same can be said of American Samoa.  Guam has fewer than 170,000 residents; American Samoa less than 50,000.  The US Virgin Islands may be ripe for statehood, but they have only slightly over 100.000 residents -- another no-go.  

Revising the Constitution is a bigger task, one that may only happen if Texas gets painted Blue.  At that point, the GOP will have no chance of electing a POTUS, and may be ready to bargain.  That may be a while coming, so statehood for the deserving needs to come first.