The Democrats are desperate to get new bodies to shuffle into that voting booth and pull the lever that has the big shiny "D" beside it. Giving the franchise to convicted felons? Sure! Amnesty and voting rights for thirty million wetbacks? Sure!
>>14
In Western nations this has been the case for centuries, only ending with postwar "reform." Felons are stripped of citizenship at conviction, as their crimes are so heinous that they amount to renunciation of citizenship and waging war on the society in which they live. Felons have no rights under the law, only privileges that can be withheld with or without warning, with or without cause, by any judge or police officer who believes the circumstances justify it at the moment.
Or so it was when, for example, New York City had twenty murders per year instead of one thousand.