Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Meghan McCain Shares Ignorant View Of Voting Rights" video.

To elaborate: The very concept of elections is to have voters choose politicians. The notion of politicians stopping any adult citizen from voting for any reason undermines the very foundations of our entire form of government. That's how you get things like the war on drugs and Jim Crow. Voting must be an inalienable right for the system to function at all. Just like gerrymandering, politicians cannot be allowed to choose voters or the whole system collapses (just with even more collateral damage when disenfranchisement is done through incarceration).
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The very concept of elections is to have voters choose politicians. The notion of politicians stopping any adult citizen from voting for any reason undermines the very foundations of our entire form of government. That's how you get things like the war on drugs and Jim Crow. Voting must be an inalienable right for the system to function at all. Just like gerrymandering, politicians cannot be allowed to choose voters or the whole system collapses (just with even more collateral damage when disenfranchisement is done through incarceration).
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Journalist? Lmao!
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Because it's a tautology?
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The conservatives were the ones who came up with the war on drugs to disenfranchise hippies and minorities via incarceration in the first place, so no.
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@FOLIPE um, the war on drugs is internal policy (and Obama governed as a conservative)
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@FOLIPE fair enough
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The problem is that creates an incentive for politicians to criminalize non-crimes to disenfranchise certain demographics unlikely to vote for them. That's how we got the "War on Drugs" in the first place. As soon as you let politicians tell adult citizens they can't vote for X reason, it will be abused. A healthy democratic government requires voters choosing politicians and not the other way around. Reguardless of how you feel about felons, you can't trust politicians with that power.
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