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Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Scenarios Involving the US Presidential Line of Succession Date: 13 Oct 2024 22:06:55 GMT Lines: 38 Message-ID: <ln2ujvFq0s8U1@mid.individual.net> References: <ve3er7$bc5$1@panix2.panix.com> <g1lagj1nisg9lcp7v86keo3ajmvfec6si6@4ax.com> <ve4p55$2givf$2@dont-email.me> <ou8dgjp2mtgu5jv93ml600u284ifrccfpn@4ax.com> <ve6frg$2o1c0$2@dont-email.me> <2gtfgj9p2r66h84afc2hfapm4l2gflac9b@4ax.com> <ve8vb8$37i5m$1@dont-email.me> <ve9vu6$3cd21$1@dont-email.me> <vebftp$3n8j2$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net w3lsY9GzlG8/g2BusGqKuQPp5P9mlTJiRUHSMNNE5uC/YB9w6b Cancel-Lock: sha1:xkp12K+fyKnRjIBegcTwahs0VYc= sha256:2AHu1URm4lmG5wnwzdKCcN5r72RLEpcF3BqYaoONzFM= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 2743 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. >>> >>> Without, one hopes, disenfranchising a million Americans. >>> >> You can't be disenfranchised if you don't have the ability to vote in >> the first place. ;) > > 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. > > > 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. Republicans have been floating plans to enfranchise DC residents for decades, 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 just as the part of DC across the river was made part of Virginia in the nineteenth century. The local Democratic leaders are continuing their distaste for allowing voters to have more say in government this year. There's a referendum on the ballot to allow independents to vote in the primary of their choice. All the Democratic political leaders are lobbying hard against the referendum; DC is so strongly Democratic that the primary is the only time voters have any input and the leaders like it that way. Chris