Democrats are considering several bad ideas to change our nation’s rules on voting, including a younger voting age, a national popular vote, and that voting rights be restored to felons on parole or in prison (even in states where the legislatures have rejected the idea). On Thursday, the Democrat-control House Committee on Oversight and Reform is holding a hearing on granting statehood to Washington, D.C., complete with two voting senators.

This is a bad idea, but not just because Washington, D.C., so reliably votes for Democrats (90.48% for Hillary Clinton in 2016, compared to vote shares of 69% and 62% from the next most lopsided locales, Wyoming for Trump and Hawaii for Clinton) or because it enjoys so many benefits from its physical proximity to power and access to gorgeous monuments and “free” museums supported for by taxpayers across the country.