What do you think of the Australian system? If you are eligible to vote
and don't vote you can be fined.
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Voltaire
??? Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
???
??? Voltaire,
On 7/22/2019 2:37 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Once again the focus is on the negative. Debating who should be
denied the right to vote simply opens the door to who else should not
have the right. We need to focus on how we bring all eligible
citizens to the ballot box, and how to guarantee that their vote is
counted. While we are fretting over who should be unable to vote, the
Ruling Class is hard at work making elections worthless.
Carl Jarvis
On 7/21/19, Bob Hachey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
I agree with a good bit of Paul Street here. But Sanders lost me when he
said that even the likes of the marathon bomber has the right to vote while
in prison. IMHO, anyone imprisoned for violence upon another person should
lose that right while in prison and regain it upon release. I am no fan of
Biden, but I'll hold my nose and vote for him in the general if for no other
reason than to prevent Trump from winning a second term.
No doubt about it, there is plenty of both racism and hipocricy on both
sides. How many recall how the democrats were in bed with the KKK during the
1920's or how southern democrats used to be known as dixicrats?
Now for the blatant free speech hipocricy coming from the right? While
conservatives rightly deride the left for its limitations on free speech in
the name of political correctness, look how they now support Trump in his
attempts to shut down the free speech of the four members of the "squad." If
they thought that all of Trump's criticisms of the Obama administration were
OK during the 2016 campaign, then why are they so upset about what folks
like AOC and Ayana Pressly have to say regarding his administration?
Two things I am sure of:
1. we are getting closer and closer to civil war.
2. we have gone very far away from the civil and respectful discourse that
should be at the heart of American democracy.
Bob Hachey
