Alex Graham 🌐🌹🏗

So to remediate this, the U.S. should... completely disregard the self-determination of Puerto Ricans who live on the island, who have now voted for statehood three times in a row? In favor of a few socialist activists in New York claiming to speak for the ghosts of the Puerto Rican independence movement? Nah. There's a lot of independence movements throughout history that were put down forcefully, and are interesting what-ifs if they had succeeded back then. From Texas, to Quebec. And they were in a completely different time and have been rendered irrelevant by modern political considerations, like what the current people of those regions actually want. Puerto Rico is no exception. It's interesting to imagine what might have been if the independence movement succeeded back when there was genuine popular support for it. But there isn't anymore. Independence polls dead last every time the island's status is surveyed. It struggles to get double digits. And it's telling that the vast majority of independence activists are living on the mainland, proudly enjoying full rights as Americans and residents of U.S. states, and don't at all seem eager to give it up for themselves. They want to be white knights for a dead cause they wouldn't even have to live with the theoretical consequences of if it succeeded.