Political Memes

Taking away the rights of felons to vote makes their incarceration unjust by its nature, and just makes them people trapped in cages by people with guns, might equals right. They'd still have to have a say in the laws that imprison them to be justly imprisoned. Also, if we cared about rehabilitation, spoilers: our culture is actually hostile to the concept, we'd be encouraging civic participation, not banning it.

But Americans have always had a raging, hateful ~~justice~~ vengeance boner to feel better about our own inadequacies in a nation built by slaves atop our genocide victims.

A civilized nation would want their citizens who made a mistake, often because society failed them, to be rehabilitated and thrive as their fellow citizens.

We don't do that here. Our ex-cons are set up for failure after already going in desperate. Then every conservative and a majority of neoliberals cheers when they do, like it's a victory for them.

You can talk about all the world's despots and dictators, but we still have the largest population of incarcerated citizens on Earth, and not even per capita. More of our people live in bondage than even China with its billion people. We found the...🤮...private profit in putting human beings in cages for any excuse.