It is radical to let ALL prisoners vote. People who shoot up high schools, churches, temples, movie theatres etc. do not deserve to participate in our democracy. They’ve forfeited that right. @shaunking @EricShapiro3
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People who engaged in those crimes make up a small percentage of those incarcerated; it is misleading to make the conversation about then when Bernie Sanders’s proposal would primarily enfranchise non-violent offenders, including, disproportionately, POC.
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As for violent offenders, they are already paying their debt to society. Depriving them of the most basic rights of citizenship weakens democracy and is a slippery slope to disenfranchising others.
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I’ll say it again, I’ll vote for him if he’s the nominee, but hyperbolic statements like these that aren’t well thought out will make
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If I had to bet on safe, poll-tested policy positions (or no policy commitments, as seems to be the case for many other candidates) or bold, progressive and occasionally controversial or grandiose policy positions, I would choose the latter.
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That’s a false choice. You’re assuming anyone other than Bernie comes to their beliefs based on polls and only he, the anointed one, is true of heart. Same guy who didn’t care at all about gun safety reform until it became a powerful political issue.
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Certainly the last Democratic candidate for POTUS, who I voted for, relied far too much on polling to craft her agenda.
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I don’t support Bernie Sanders because he is “true if heart” or right on every issue; I support him because he runs on substance and policy/ideological convictions. Politics isn’t just a game to him and he is selling ideas, not just a brand.
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It is a radical idea. We aren’t 30 other countries. We have rules and one is when you commit an act that puts you in prison you forfeit certain rights and privileges. Period.
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Yeah America is the only country with laws.
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The Great American exceptionalism.
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Even if it means we have to be worse at everything in order to be exceptional
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Definition of privilege: Calling the USA “the worst” from a cell phone invented in the USA, on an app called Twitter created in the USA, while sitting comfortably somewhere in the USA, not worried about where he’s going to eat or sleep, because he was born and raised in the USA.
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Won’t they just vote themselves out of prison?
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That's ridiculous.
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Is it though?
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What happens when they’re the majority?
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Then there would be an extreme issue in our society. We do have the most inmates in the world. But what you're suggesting is fantasy. Also, they can't just "vote themselves out". That's not how any of this works.

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Prisoner-majority is just six exponential doublings away.
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Honestly, A+ troll job. Sad this guy took the bait, but I salute him for taking the L to make me snicker.
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