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Old 11-29-2016, 05:55 PM   #11
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Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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True. But let's be brutally honest about why this is happening. Democrats want more bodies in the booths. Ninety percent of the party apparatus couldn't give a fuck about these peoples' rights. One can't help wonder how many "tough on crime" Ds suddenly supported felons' voting rights when they became a large enough statistical bloc to make a difference.
I find it spellbinding that you think you have such a deep understanding of the inner workings of everyone's mind and their motives. What is even more absorbing is watching you force equivalency on the removal of a restriction on voting with that very same restriction. It's all so gripping.

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That's exactly what I was saying. Except it applies to both parties.
This is completely and totally untrue. We are talking about voting, not approaches to governing or campaign promises. Republicans restrict voting. Democrats do not.

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But in the end, neither group offers the lumpen proletariat anything more than a temporary hand job to ease the pain of their utterly fucked futures. And neither tells the poor sons of bitches the ability of govt to protect and provide for them all in the manner to which they've become accustomed is coming to an ugly conclusion sooner than expected.
I'm not having this conversation with you again.

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