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

Chris Buckley wrote:

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.

It certainly was when I lived there.

Republicans have been floating plans to enfranchise DC residents for
decades,

Only plans that will never come to fruition.
  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

Maryland doesn't want them.  That's what makes the plan so perfect for the Republicans. It won't happen but they can say that they are doing something.
William Hyde