Occasionally, I seriously think that anyone who is employed by the government should not be allowed to vote.
They shouldn’t. The entire DC region should not have a vote. Same goes for state capitals as well, which have mostly become Commie Red zones.
We’ve become too much a democracy and too little of a Republic, and we were NOT founded as, nor ever intended to be, a democracy. Democracies consume themselves, especially when they discover they can vote to steal money from other people who actually work for a living. Notice how DC never suffers during economic downturns and there are never actual cutbacks in the size of government. Not in almost 100 years since President Harding has any real cutbacks happened.
Fun fact: D.C. was “enfranchised” during Reconstruction by Republicans. The city, in a short period, had one leader who massively spent the District into ginormous debt (Boss Alexander Robey Shepard, the Governor of DC). Congress had to rescind the self-governance and go to a Board of Commissioners for almost the next 100 years due to the malfeasance.