Uh huh... Except we fundamentally disagree on that interpretation of their general position. Further, whether that's true or not it's reason to dislike and oppose them generally. It still isn't something that's wrong with this idea.
Politics in America have always been a bit of a game (although that trivializes it: I guess more of a detente between players as they try to tip a pair of scales in their direction): sometimes it shifted towards the Left and Democrats, and other times the Right and Republicans. Yes, they both did things to try to "one up" the other Party -- that's the political dynamic that's been present for centuries, after all.
But now? Things are different.
Very different.
This isn't the usual "one up" attempts by one side of the political spectrum: one of the "players" has, frankly,
gone utterly batshit insane to the point that if they were a real-life person, they'd be doped up and thrown in a psychiatric unit for evaluation. They've pretty much embraced a lot of the tactics and ideologies seen in
certain countries from
certain eras. They're not trying to rig the "game", they're trying to
destroy it and the board so that it will be permanently in and
irrecoverably set in their favour.
This is what a lot of Republicans, Right-leaning people, Conservatives, and just people with plain old common sense simply don't understand at the moment, and I fear by the time they wake up, it'll be far too late: This isn't just a typical round like in the past where saying "we'll rally and come back in a few years" is still true and valid, like they presume it is. They can't try to tip the scales like in the past
because the Other Guy has gone fucking nuts and is trying to destroy the scales themselves.
That's why people are against DC and Puerto Rico becoming States, at least at this time: It's not because it'd simply be part of the typical "game"/scale-tipping if it were being pushed forward in any
other time period in recent history, but because it's now being used as another weapon in the batshit insane player's arsenal to
destroy the scales.
I honestly believe that at this point, America may need a coup to survive -- whether that means a 9mm in the back of Democrats' heads or just imprisonment until they forget what the sun looks like, I dunno. Otherwise, America is going to be fully transformed into something obscene, the shades of which we're seeing now in everything from the indoctrination seen in school systems (from kids to college students) to BLM and AntiFa.
But, then again, if the hypothetical coup that people on the Left irrationally fear did occur, what comes after may just be as bad -- either way, even if a coup occurs or doesn't occur, Western society as we've known it in the last few decades, the batshit insanity of these last ten years or so aside, won't return -- at least how we knew it.
You can blame the Left for collectively going bug nuts insane for that.
The future is going to be an interesting one.