Pack the Union: Admit New States to Amend Constitution for Equal Representation

[Bacon King]

Another perspective to think about is how easily the process could be corrupted or derailed once it has begun. There's no guarantee these neighborhoods will go along with the "plan" and these neighborhoods will become obvious targets where people will try to move and affect the process. Billionaires will start buying up homes for thousands of times their real value.

Imagine you're a home owner in one of the poorer neighborhoods of DC, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck, and then one day some dude in a suit shows up and promises to buy your tiny $40k home for $40 million dollars. You'd be insane to turn it down, it's like winning the lottery!

Hell, different factions trying to influence the process in different ways would probably be making competing bids that include increasingly large amounts of money as well as PR campaigns where each potential buyer is telling you that all the other people trying to give you money are just selfish greedy people trying to bribe you to rig the system in their own interest, whereas THEY on the other hand definitely absolutely support this list of things that you are statistically likely to support! So even if you have reservations at first you're probably going to give in once you realize that you can get rich quick AND feel like you're making a positive difference while doing so.

On top of that, if you still refuse to buy, well, the insane hyperinflation of the property market means all the land in the rest of the neighborhood is going to be reappraised at extremely high values on account of the skyrocketing prices the rest of your neighborhood is being sold for. So now that home owner is facing a choice, "do accept $100 million to move and live somewhere else, or do I stay and go bankrupt because suddenly my property tax is more than I'll make in my entire life?".

Oh, and on top of that, anyone trying to stay would also be forced to deal with some insane hypercrowding. Keep in mind that homeless people are still allowed to vote. There will be thousands and thousands of activists squatting in the streets of every neighborhood -- imagine Occupy Wall Street but covering literally the entire District of Columbia. Not to mention all the homes bought for millions of dollars would be turned into barracks, housing hundreds of dedicated activists.

The ONLY way this could be pulled off is if the federal government assumed dictatorial control, and at that point you might as well just edit the constitution directly instead of using this convoluted and impossible process to amend it