How is there a rule to begin with? Did someone follow ex cons into the booth to see how they vote, if they even bother to vote?
It's a bogus boogeyman.
As an excon myself who has completely turned his life around I find the constant stereotyping to be over the top.
So now we cant even stereotype criminals?
You see where liberalism leads?
You realize you are essentially calling GMU a liberal?
It does not even take a cursory look to see this as false.
That even criminals are victims and a protected class does not sound like liberalism to you?
I like the guy. And his posts are always thoughtful and worth reading. I’m just flabbergasted to hear him say that felons don’t vote Democrat because he doesn’t. That’s all. Don’t make it more than it is.
LOL. I stand corrected then
I have to agree on the sentiment here - they clearly do.
Given that though - what do you think of the measure? A actually agree with its passage - denying rights after completing sentencing is abhorrent to me in an extreme way without reasonable cause.
Sentencing is not complete my friend. The prison term is only part of the sentence. That’s why we differentiate between felonies and misdemeanors. A felony act is one so egregious against society that you suffer the “civil death”. Expelled from running the society you attacked. Other punishments include prison, probation and fines.
Where this idea that the length of prison is the only sentence came from I have no idea. Western man has always practiced this felony banishment in any free society it ever developed. It enhances freedom while allowing the corrupt to vote devalues it.
Civil death - Wikipedia
And this isn’t the most severe punishment. Westerners, the people who taught the world the meaning of liberty, for the most egregious of cases, imposed
Caput lupinum - Wikipedia