Statehood for Puerto Rico

[Politruk]

What about Guam and Virgin Islands?

And why doesn’t anyone talk about Carolina Reunification?

The USVI could be counties of Puerto Rico -- they are right next door to it.

 

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Trump only wants to annex Greenland because he wants to be the first president since the Spanish-American War to expand the U.S.

Maybe he could be persuaded to support PR's statehood for that reason.

 

[Bn2f]

Trump only wants to annex Greenland because he wants to be the first president since the Spanish-American War to expand the U.S.

Maybe he could be persuaded to support PR's statehood for that reason.

I’ll ask you since no trumper dare answer: I do not claim to know Danish politics, but would granting Greenland (also PR, or Canada, or any country taken over by the US) possibly tilt the razor thin majority trump and republicans hold on the current government? Do you foresee any scenario where any of these places would be thankful to trump for a possible hostile disruption to their norms and national identity and caucus with republicans?

 

[Politruk]

I’ll ask you since no trumper dare answer: I do not claim to know Danish politics, but would granting Greenland (also PR, or Canada, or any country taken over by the US) possibly tilt the razor thin majority trump and republicans hold on the current government? Do you foresee any scenario where any of these places would be thankful to trump for a possible hostile disruption to their norms and national identity and caucus with republicans?

Well, the party politics of Puerto Rico do not neatly map onto the mainland party system. The parties have always been defined by the single most important issue in PR politics -- the island's constitutional future. There is an independence party, a statehood party, and a party supporting perpetuation of the status quo. Statehood would render that issue moot, so a new party system would inevitably emerge -- and whether that would be more to the Dems' or the Pubs' benefit is anybody's guess. On the one hand, it's a poor island, so it should favor activist welfare-statist government, supporting the Dems; OTOH, Latinos are generally socially conservative, and that would tend to align them with the Pubs.

Canada's admission would definitely favor the Dems, the nearest U.S. equivalent to the Liberals. It would also make the leftist social-democratic New Democrats a factor in U.S. politics.

The Greenlander-Americans probably would vote Dem, because up to now they've been part of Denmark, a social democracy.

Statehood for DC would definitely favor the Dems.

 

[Bn2f]

Well, the party politics of Puerto Rico do not neatly map onto the mainland party system. The parties have always been defined by the single most important issue in PR politics -- the island's constitutional future. There is an independence party, a statehood party, and a party supporting perpetuation of the status quo. Statehood would render that issue moot, so a new party system would inevitably emerge -- and whether that would be more to the Dems' or the Pubs' benefit is anybody's guess. On the one hand, it's a poor island, so it should favor activist welfare-statist government, supporting the Dems; OTOH, Latinos are generally socially conservative, and that would tend to align them with the Pubs.

Canada's admission would definitely favor the Dems, the nearest U.S. equivalent to the Liberals. It would also make the leftist social-democratic New Democrats a factor in U.S. politics.

The Greenlander-Americans probably would vote Dem, because up to now they've been part of Denmark, a social democracy.

Statehood for DC would definitely favor the Dems.

Thx.
I say give the idiots what they want and watch as at least 22 senators and representatives change the nature of American politics.

 

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