No matter what terrible crime you may have committed, and no matter if your debt to society has been paid or not, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks you should be able to shape our society with the right to vote.
During a rally in Fort Worth, Texas, presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., doubled down on his proposal to give incarcerated felons, including terrorists and those who commit sexual assault, the right to vote.
“If you commit a terrible crime, you’re going to pay the price,” Sanders told his supporters. “But that does not mean that your right to participate in our democracy is taken away from you.”
He said taking away voting rights from felons in jail is a “slippery slope” that could lead to other groups of people’s right to vote to be taken away.
“Once you begin taking away somebody’s right to vote, you’re moving down a slippery slope. ‘You committed a crime, you can’t vote. You’re poor, you can’t vote,'” Sanders said.
Sanders claims to believe that if we don’t grant terrorists, murders and convicted sex offenders the right to vote that Americans will start targeting poor people by lumping them in with the mix.
What’s more likely here is that Sanders knows that a criminal will likely vote for criminals.
Source: Washington Examiner
