Why aren't felons allowed to vote? Why does conviction of a crime mean you are no longer allowed to participate in the minimal, pacifist civil democratic practice? (Which, incidentally, merely supports one or the other faction of a single corporate political party).
I will tell you why: black, brown, and Native American peoples are disproportionately policed, disproportionately arrested, disproportionately convicted, and systematically given harsher sentences than white people, especially wealthy white people.
Therefore, preventing felons from voting is a corrupt way to prevent democracy through unethical, yet legal, voter suppression. Disenfranchisement of felons supports the undemocratic political class of the wealthy elite, whose interests are different, and often entirely antithetical, to 99% of the population.
Felons should be allowed to vote.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/22/florida_election_police_arrests_formerly_incarcerated
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Racism in US Justice https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy1Yl-f8BHjZ0aYsikDGw-c57n4WnFDGP
Racism in America https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy1Yl-f8BHjYiAF6YKOtg47YVba_9tOfi
I woke up in Idiocracy. This is a dystopia.
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