Puerto Rico statehood referendum 2020

[GlobeSoc]

I don’t care how narrow the margin is on the statehood vote. Any yes vote whatsoever should result in a Democratic trifecta giving them statehood. Elections have consequences.

And I don't want to hear about how people boycotted the election. If they didn't want PR to become a state, they should have voted

Socialist avatar. I'd say 90% of self-identified socialists in PR will boycott.

Well that's their choice, but they can't complain if statehood wins 52-48 and Puerto Rico is electing Senators and Representatives in Feburary.

They can absolutely complain that a nonbinding referendum with no alternative to statehood (with a 52-48 vote!) is taken by their colonial government as an opportunity to settle a cenrury long debate about PR's status. Do you really think that won't piss people off? And for all your fingerwagging about boycotts, it's worked for the last few referendums, so it's not like it's an illogical decision.

i tend to the take of giving puerto rico a binary independence-statehood referendum, and then immediately executing the result regardless of how close it is. commonwealth status is an arrangement not particularly conducive to good and representative governance, plus its colonial connotations aren't good. on the take of "just give puerto rico independence", i'm not reflexively opposed but...if they end up supporting statehood over independence that's their choice right? at a certain point that take's logical extreme effectively means pulling a malaysia for woke reasons