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Do you know where there are no elections, Donny? Inside a jail cell. Where you belong since some time.
You, uh... You do know how absolutely fucked that is right? That you guys don't have voting in prisons, that you can prevent convicts from voting?
Like, when you're asking yourself "How did we get to the point where our president is openly flirting with cancelling elections?", some of that is that you guys accepted as normal levels of anti-democratic behaviour that most democratic nations consider you absolutely insane for endorsing.
In Canada we literally set up polling stations in the prisons. You can be a serial killer doing multiple life sentences, you still get the right to vote. That is a bedrock, fundamental right that no one, especially not the government, ever gets to take away from you.
Maybe if the US treated voting rights in the same way, you might be a little less fucked up right now.
We don't have rights here in the US, we have privileges. They've been revoking a lot of our privileges lately.
Yeah when you explicitly define your freedoms you put a hard limit on freedom. Land of the Free? More like Land of the Enslaved. You should be defining your restrictions so you have infinite freedoms.
It’s even better in Australia - not only do prisoners get to vote, legally they must vote or face a fine for not voting. We have compulsory voting for all eligible and enrolled citizens, bar none. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) sends representatives to every prison to ensure that the votes are all submitted correctly. This isn’t even in our constitution - we legislated it in 1924 and no political party wants to go near the idea of removing compulsory voting nor taking away the rights of the incarcerated to participate in our democracy.
He was at jail cell levels back in like 2017.
I wasn't aware that some meant 40 years