Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Scenarios Involving the US Presidential Line of Succession

On 2024-10-11, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 10/10/2024 9:28 AM, William Hyde wrote:

Paul S Person wrote:

I also suspect a new District of Columbia will be established,
probably in the middle of the country. Nothing like high mountains and
a thousand miles or two of land to make a government feel secure.

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Without, one hopes, disenfranchising a million Americans.
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You can't be disenfranchised if you don't have the ability to vote in
the first place.  ;)

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As I understand it a number of people in Georgetown and other
settlements in what became DC were rather unhappy with their loss of
voting rights.
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When I lived in DC someone published a few letters from the time as part
of the movement to enfranchise the residents of DC.

The issue in DC has not been about being able to vote for a long time.
Republicans have been floating plans to enfranchise DC residents for
decades, but the local Democrats have been saying "no, we don't want
to vote that much."  The Republican plans are to join DC and Maryland
in some form, perhaps making the remaining DC part of Maryland just as
the part of DC across the river was made part of Virginia in the
nineteenth century.

The local Democratic leaders are continuing their distaste for
allowing voters to have more say in government this year.  There's a
referendum on the ballot to allow independents to vote in the primary
of their choice.  All the Democratic political leaders are lobbying
hard against the referendum; DC is so strongly Democratic that the
primary is the only time voters have any input and the leaders like it
that way.

Chris