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It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk
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Ironically it's generally just that felons can't vote. There is some understandablility for not making felons unable to run for office, in theory it could be used as a political tool.
It's an easily exploitable human rights violation for that as is, which is why all the shithole states are making various forms of protest a felony.
Agreed
They should be able to vote too. Felonizing minorities is a real thing that's been going on since 1865.
I agree
Case in point: The QAnon Shaman is running for a US Senate seat. Seriously. He wants to be a legislator in the building that he was sent to prison for physically attacking.
I strongly disagree. Being convicted of a felony is far easier than you may think. It is still a felony in many states to possess weed, to give only one example. It is too susceptible to being used for political persecution.
In fact, it already is used for that purpose since convicted felons can't vote in most states. The entire purpose of the war on drugs was political persecution.
“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities, We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
-John Ehrlichman, one of Nixon’s advisors
There aren't laws because we don't want the government to be able to just imprison any opposition. There is however a Constitutional rule about government officials who lead insurrections. I'm excited for all the Constitutionalists to just ignore that though.