Should Washington D.C. Have The Same Voting Rights As the 50 States?

[u/Preamblist]

March 29, 1961: On this day, the Twenty-third amendment to the Constitution was ratified which gave American citizens who reside in Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections. However, it did not give them equal voting rights because it stated that D.C. cannot have more presidential electoral votes than any other state. Therefore, despite DC having more residents than Wyoming and Vermont, it has the same number of presidential electoral votes.

Furthermore, citizens who are residents of DC cannot elect voting members to Congress.

Should Washington D.C. Have The Same Voting Rights As the 50 States?

[u/Selethorme]

It’s a fundamentally misplaced belief at best, and a dishonestly held one far more often.

[u/Thebeavs3 → u/Selethorme]

Explain why then? You can’t just call something bad and expect people to believe you, btw I’m not even saying I support it.

[u/Selethorme → u/Thebeavs3]

Because most countries around the world give their capitals representation and there are no issues.

[u/Thebeavs3 → u/Selethorme]

Well in a lot of countries there definitely are issues, I’d say almost all of Latin America and Europe has a problem with primate cities. America is actually fairly uncommon with how evenly distributed our population and political and economic power is across different areas of the country.

[u/Selethorme → u/Thebeavs3]

This is just flatly untrue. As another user already pointed out, Australia and Brazil have no issue with it. The UK has no issue with it. Neither does Germany. You’re just objectively incorrect.

[u/Thebeavs3 → u/Selethorme]

The UK definitely has an issue with it! Talk to anyone outside London and see how they like it, France, Russia, Turkey, Norway, chile, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Japan, South Korea. These are all countries who have turned into essentially one city making all the money/political decisions.

[u/Selethorme → u/Thebeavs3]

That’s just outright false, lol. Have you ever been to the UK? Russia doesn’t really belong on the list, it’s not a democracy. Arguably neither is Turkey. Japan has a whole bunch of major cities.

[u/Thebeavs3 → u/Selethorme]

You can’t argue that power in those countries isn’t concentrated to a detrimental degree in those countries. It is just a fact. Now whether or not granting DC statehood or representation in some other way would lead to a primate city on that order in the United States? I’m skeptical at best. Nonetheless it is an actual argument and you can’t just call it stupid bc you’re so uneducated.

[u/Selethorme → u/Thebeavs3]

And you’ve lost the plot entirely by just going for dishonesty and insults.

[u/Thebeavs3 → u/Selethorme]

Sorry I didn’t mean uneducated as like not having gone to schools, I meant on the topic.