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 Let’s Not Give Statehood To The Third World Country Of Washington DC
To repurpose a poetic line from former president and wordsmith Donald Trump, the District of Columbia is a 'sh-thole country.'

By Kylee Zempel
April 29, 2021

In their latest leftist power-grab, Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives voted last week to admit Washington, D.C. as the 51st state in the union, tossing the measure to the Senate, where it faces an uphill battle. That’s because, as even some Democratic senators know, conferring statehood on the District of Columbia is a horrible idea — and not just because the founders wouldn’t approve.

Washingtonians who have ever bothered to crack the Constitution (likely a minority of them) know D.C. statehood is unconstitutional. Article I of the Constitution grants the federal government the power of “exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district … as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States” even before the location of the district had been decided. As last summer’s mayhem and rioting illustrated, not only would granting statehood to D.C. give this one state a disproportionate amount of power, but it would also prohibit the federal government from eliminating threats and disorder there.

“Lawlessness in capitals poses a unique danger to a nation, which is among the reasons the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the federal district,” wrote Kyle Sammin here at The Federalist. “[A]llowing D.C. to become the 51st state would enable one local government to hold the nation hostage through inaction — or even endorsement — of riotous disturbances.”

But the biggest reason never to admit the District of Columbia as a state isn’t that it would violate our treasured founding documents.  DC lawmakers gave those up long ago, anyway.

It’s that Washington, D.C., despite its stately marble halls and rich history, is a Third World country. That’s right: America would be better off giving statehood to Somalia. At least we could try fracking it. D.C. is no fracking good at all.

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Mr. M lived and worked in DC in the late 70s. It was a hellhole then. His car was broken into on a regular basis. I had a friend who lived there in the early 80s. Some hoodlums broke into his Capitol Hill apartment, tied him up and robbed him.

 It would be the first state to have absolutely no actual industry (except crime and corruption), but hey, why not?
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The Constitution prevents DC from becoming a state unless a Constitutional Amendment is passed as DC is subservient to Congress.

No state can exist when it does not have its own control.

If it is the argument the citizens of DC do not have representation, then give the land back to Maryland and Virginia.
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