No current US territories meet the requirements to become a state in my opinion.
PR is too different, a very small percentage of its population can actually speak English. If the average Puerto Rican can’t communicate with the average North Carolinian, then that’s a problem, because citizens of the same country need to be able to communicate. Additionally, Puerto Rico is corrupt, and I feel like they just want the feds to bail them out.
DC is too small territorially. That’s a problem because then it will be compromised of only a single city. That leads to issues with separations of powers- I’m not comfortable with allowing an entire state to be controlled by one city. Not to mention there’s an explicit reason the founders were opposed to this.
All other territories have too small populations, among other issues.
Not to mention that these are being done for political reasons. If they voted differently, we all know most Atlasians would be completely opposed to this.
"People I don't like should be disenfranchised because reasons"
How is PR disenfranchised? They have their own government. They aren’t drafted. They don’t pay federal taxes. So, because you believe that they have X benefits without Y costs, that means they aren't disenfranchised? I'm pretty sure that our federal government is also their federal government; they are also citizens of this country. As a citizen, I'd be pretty pissed off not being able to have a say in what my federal government does just because a certain political party would be negatively impacted by my proposed state's ability to express our will and exert democratic influence on our shared federal government.
Instead of working hard to suppress and limit voters, maybe try appealing to them instead. Really radical idea, I know!
