[TheRealThing]

House passed DC statehood this week. Of course there is an uphill battle in the Senate. 
Say what you will there are nearly a million people with no federal representation in Congress. That doesn’t match the democratic principles this country was founded on.

Please! Trusting what you say about the principles this country was founded on is like trusting Bernie Madoff with one's retirement investments. One minute you're on here saying the founders were all a bunch of white supremacists, and the next you're citing those same founders as the guideline for usurping the vision of... wait for it.... The FOUNDERS. Your only consideration is liberalism. You only cite the constitution when it suits whatever liberal argument you may be making at the time. And even then your citing is based on the liberal distortion du jour. DNC talking points in other words.

MARCH 22, 2021 before the US Congress
The Testimony of Roger Pilon; vice president for legal affairs emeritus at the Cato Institute and the founding director emeritus of Cato’s Center for Constitutional Studies: now holding Cato’s B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies.

In discussing James Madison's Federalist 43 essay on the seat of government as it relates to statehood, citing the following:

"The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government, carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings interrupted with impunity; but a dependence of the members of the general government on the State comprehending the seat of the government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might bring on the national councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy." --- James Madison

"Independency runs through Madison’s explanation: It was imperative that the federal government not be dependent on any one of the states, and equally that no state be either dependent on the federal government or disproportionately influential on that government. Neither of those objectives would be met under this bill." ---Roger Pilon
https://www.cato.org/testimony/making-dc...ions-hr-51

There was a Western that came out in 1985 entitled 'Silverado.' Brian Dennehy plays the part of a bad guy who somehow gets himself appointed Sheriff of the town of Silverado. At the movie's opening he meets up with a former gang member who'd just gotten out of jail, bad guy Dennehy opens his jacket to reveal his Sheriff's badge saying--- "Welcome to heaven."

The founders knew better than to allow the seat of government  to be beholden to any one state, much less allow the seat of government to BECOME  a state.

Oh and Cardfan, saying the residents of DC don't have representation in the Congress is like saying the stewardesses on an airliner don't have a pilot. Absurd rationale.