Facts not in evidence and the disfranchisement applied equally to everyone arrested and started LONG before Jim Crow and continued afterwards, it was something targeted at blacks. And poll taxes helped pay for the schools and applied to and if you could not pay them you could sign an affidavit. And parties have ALWAYS had party officials at polling places to monitor, what the Republicans have never had are officials there to intimidate and threaten that was always Democrats and Black Panthers.
Yeah, and my whole thing is that I think it is healthy to have people emphatically arguing on both sides of that equation. While more focused on business, that's the whole thing I'm focusing my own thesis on: this idea that emphatic disagreements are part of our social evolution as a species. It seems like we have a more risk-averse, cautious faction and a risk-accepting, exploration-driven faction, and we'd have gone extinct if either had prevailed completely.
Doesn't it concern you... that when ex felons vote... they are more likely to vote for Biden than Trump.... that would concern me a lot
related threads touching on gun rights rather than voting rights: http://www.politicalforum.com/index...felons-be-punished-if-they-have-a-gun.528890/ http://www.politicalforum.com/index...g-their-rights-rape-domestic-violence.579078/ http://www.politicalforum.com/index...-law-securing-rights-after-conviction.578933/ http://www.politicalforum.com/index...akes-sense-to-prohibit-guns-to-felons.526639/
So business that collected grants (ie PPP program), farm subsidies, or “billionaires” that received millions in taxpayer funds? Should they lose the right to vote?
No, they shouldn't! Does that surprise you...? NOBODY SHOULD BE GETTING 'FREE STUFF' FROM THE GOVERNMENT! The only exceptions should be for people who cannot (CANNOT) support themselves because of things like horrible, incurable disease, birth defects, or catastrophic injuries, and damned little else! Responsible people build up cash reserves against bad economic times! They don't rely on the government or some damned stinking, corrupt, manipulating 'central bank' (i.e., the "Fed") to come riding to the rescue every time they 'get their teats caught in the wringer'....
At least you are consistent in your views, I can appreciate that. A rare quality. Why should these people be allowed to be taken care of by the government? There are numerous mental illnesses that can be debilitating. If we don’t want to support others then no one should get support because there will always be disagreement where that line is drawn. So people have no disposable income, temporary loss of a job or just simple car trouble can spell disastrous for many families. Families could once get by with a single income earner, now it takes two just for some to get by. How should one of these families “build up a cash reserve” when one or both are laid off due to no fault of their own?
I don't know, CD8... in this country we have the FREEDOM to 'make it or break it'. We are ALL equal before the law, and we have the ability to rise to success, or, to plummet down into failure. What some other person chooses to do with his/her life is entirely up to them. I do make an exception for those who CANNOT support themselves, though. In the richest, most powerful nation on Earth, we should be able to provide at least a subsistence existence for those who are truly UNABLE to work and provide for their own needs. But, no, that doesn't mean all the 'druggies', scammers, slackers, and worthless bums. It's actually fairly easy to 'Suss' them out....
