State Of The 51st State

By Baxter

Here's a "fringe idea moving to the mainstream" that we can get behind.

We're so tired of reading about how white supremacy and QAnon crap have been injected into the political bloodstream. It's time that Democrats injected a few wild ideas of our own. Case in point: statehood for the District of Columbia.

This was on our radar more than 40 years ago. (Yes! We cats have nine lives, so we've been around for a long time.) It seemed radical at one point, but then you realize that folks whose primary residences are in the District are denied full Congressional representation. Hence the inspiration for DC license plates.

You know what? It's time. Even Donald Trump's cars had plates like this.

Republicans have long opposed DC statehood because it would add one Representative and, more crucially, two Senate seats, to Congress — in other words, three more Democrats, and, probably, three more Black Democrats. How awful for them! But considering how off the deep end they've gone — and how bold the Democrats have become since we took the Senate by a razor-thin margin — maybe now is the moment to seize upon, to even things out.

"The jolt of momentum stems in part from an increasingly urgent desire among Democrats to act while they have power to erode what they see as Republican structural advantages in the nation’s democracy — including the Senate," The Washington Post reports. We agree. Carpe diem, Democrats! We cats PURR.