“Making someone an honorary US citizen 230 years after they died is really useful for him, how will his afterlife change one bit? Did he even desire to be a US citizen?”
I think it’s more about us recognizing his contribution to creating a country that could then make him a citizen. Which one would think he’d be proud to accept seeing as how he died trying to make it all happen.
As to his afterlife? Don’t really know about that but...”What we do in life echoes in eternity.” “Gladiator)
I didn’t say we could recognize or honor a person, awarding something to them who is centuries dead is just a little odd to me. Rename New York after him for all I care, but making him a citizen is a little like Mormons baptizing people long after they died.