Bernie Sanders – Felons Should Vote From Jail
Tom Stiglich, Creators.com, cartoon.
Bernie Sanders argues that the Constitution gives everybody the right to vote. During a CNN townhall, one of the audience members asked him if he would support franchising people convicted of terrorism, murder, and sexual assault.
In his response, Bernie Sanders argued that the Constitution says that everybody could vote. He expanded by arguing that we are a “democracy”, and that this “democracy” should be expanded. He talked about a “slippery slope” if these people were to continue not having a right to vote.
From Fox News:
Senator Bernie Sanders:
“But, I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away and you say, ‘That guy committed a terrible crime, not gonna let him vote. Well, that person did that. Not gonna let that person vote,’ you’re running down a slippery slope. So, I believe that people who commit crimes, they pay the price. When they get out of jail, I believe they certainly should have the right the vote, but I do believe that even if they are in jail, they’re paying their price to society, but that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”
If you check the text of the Constitution, it doesn’t clearly state that “everybody should be able to vote”. In fact, it does acknowledge that certain people wouldn’t have that right. It mentions “crime” as one of the groups of people that would not be able to vote.
Where was this “slippery slope” argument on his stance on weapons? He voted in favor of banning assault weapons, in favor of expanding background checks, and in favor of banning magazines that could hold more than 10 rounds. One could look at examples of what is happening in the UK to see where this slippery slope could lead.
What about the slippery slope that could result from providing a path to legalization to the illegal aliens that are already here? Give a pathway to citizenship to those individuals, and you’ll encourage even more illegal aliens to come over… Come here illegally, stick around long enough, and one might benefit from the same consideration.
But, when it comes to the left, more specifically their “movers and shakers”, they don’t really care about democracy, or about the “little guy”. For those on the left in general, it’s more about getting their way. For those on the left, in positions of power and/or influence, it’s more about power and control.
Allowing the felons to vote, while they’re still in jail, increases the numbers for Democrat votes. Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens that are already here? Additional votes for Democrats.
Reduce the populations’ weapons capability relative to that of the criminals? With policies that are softer towards crime, and with more crime being committed, more become dependent on the government for both protection and “solutions”. Unfortunately, in this scenario, the “solutions” chip away at our power over the government.
You can read more about his argument to let felons vote, and about his stance, on select issues, in the linked Fox News articles.
Category: Politics
If dead demonrats could vote, why not live demonrat murderers and rapists ???…///
Combat Historian:
You nailed it.
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That senile, old anti american p.o.s.! Someone tell the braindead maggot that felons GAVE UP their right to vote! Anyone that would vote for that moron, needs to move to some shyt hole socialist country of their choice imho!
“He talked about a “slippery slope” if these people were to continue not having a right to vote”
What about the slippery slope of them not being able to posses a firearm Bernie?
You gonna go there also?
Man,
If this thread don’t attract the seagull, NOTHING will…
Fyrfighter, while we are waiting for his presence to grace this blog, here is a realistic impersonation of him. (smile)
That is just about spot on!
Remember, he went BALLS DEEP for BERNIE… before Cankles McPantsuit was given the nomination.
This is what makes Bernie terrifying. He’s not one to regurgitate DNC talking points or tell you what he thinks you want to hear in order to win. Bernie truly and fervently believes in everything he says.
This is what makes most of the DNC so terrifying. They are more concerned with convicted felons, terrorists, illegal aliens, and the Iranian mullahs than they are Americans.
The Democrats’ shift to the left is so severe that a legitimately centrist candidate (who’s a woman of color BTW) like Tulsi Gabbard is running at the tail end of the pack. She checks every box for what should be a solid person to run on the presidential ticket (veteran, legislative experience, and all that). Nope, instead we’ve got a group of crazies and loons trying to outdo each other with pie in the sky plans to give everyone loads of free shit.
The worst part is they’re openly socialist! Like we didn’t spend the better part of the 20th century trying to defeat socialism.
yes, but she’s not a trans and LGBTABCDEFG or whatever, and even though she’s a different religion, she’s not bowing and scraping (that I’ve seen) to the all things islam, and wants to move on beyond the howls for impeachment. so that dog don’t hunt.
the two most palatable candidates on the left are Howie in the prez with Gabbard as veep….precisely because both of them are fairly intelligent. they’ve got to incite their base. I say incite instead of energize on purpose.
Howie has the business chops to have a real conversation about the economy with Trump, and Gabbard is dignified enough to have a solid debate with Pence. but neither are radical or retarded, and that’s the name of the 2020 game.
we also haven’t heard as much lately about Michael Obama or Stacey Abrams, or God forbid, yet another running of Hillary, and all of them check off the insanity boxes too.
I weep for this great nation.
Who would have thought that if Hillary was running again, she’d be the sanest one?
I think Gabbard has decided to sit in the corner and be quiet, hoping against hope that when the DNC conventions starts, she’ll be the last one standing!
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This is why the Democrats fear Bernie more than Trump and why their media cohorts keep talking about Bernie’s tired old talking points.
CNN this morning was showing Liz Warren regurgitating Bernie’s talking points from four years and talking about how new and fresh she sounds while talking about how Bernie is offering nothing new at all…
The party leaders hate Trump, but they hate being called socialists far more than they hate Trump.
I have a liberal, progressive, Democrat friend who believes the Democrats will once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory….
Should make 2020 most entertaining.
One wonders how fervent Bernie would be if those incarcerated leaned right.
Actually, one doesn’t have to wonder at all.
So after he kicks in your door and confiscates your firearms, he’ll let you vote?
Too much Weekends At Bernies…
Bernie has lost it…the Boston Marathon Bomber…Seriously?
“Bernie Sanders Says Boston Marathon Bomber, Sexual Assaulters Should Be Allowed To Vote”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-boston-marathon-bomber-sexual-assault-should-be-allowed-vote
It’s even started to red pill Cher!
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/04/24/cher-doubles-down-excuse-the-fk-out-of-me-if-i-dont-want-murders-rapists-child-molesters-to-vote/
Convicts at a prison in a relatively rural area (and there are many) could vote as a block and take over the local government. Presidential candidates tend to think only in national terms, if they “think” at all.
Good point ‘Jim. All politics is local when you get right down to it. AOC and the new moooslums we have as congress critters are the proof there of. How many people in NY State or MN actually support them? They start by winning on the immediate local, then go on up the ladder. I have concerns for the future my Grandchildren face.
My biggest personal fear is after I die I become a registered democrat.
Ol’ Bernie is full of it. There is nothing in the US Constitution that gives the right to vote to convicted felons. In historical fact, when the Constitution was conceived only free males who owned real property had the right to vote. Every state at one point or another in our history has barred convicted felons from voting. There is no US Supreme Court case ever decided that says convicted felons have a Constitutional right to vote. Like all progs/socialists/crypto-commie politicians, he just makes up shit he thinks the leftards and know nothings will believe.
Murder Victims can no longer vote but Bernie Sanders wants their murderers to be able to, FUCK him, his cause and his ilk!!!
? The victims vote democrat, of course. Reliably and eternally.
They’re only saying this because felons would be more likely to vote democrat, especially if democrats are giving them free shit.
D’s are always more soft on criminals, hence “oh they’ll vote for us, so we want them to be able to vote!”
If they were likely to vote R, the D’s wouldn’t want this at all.
Bernie really needs to be held up at gunpoint and robbed of everything except his underwear, preferably in the freezing cold of night.
Don’t forget that felons will vote for gun control.
Cant have potential victims carrying firearms!
The democraps have nothing, they have a bunch of left wing retards and socialists that get a lot of cnn time but at the end of the day – nothing. I bet Biden gets the nod in the end and Trump beats him worse than the Reagan landslides!
Felons shouldn’t ever be returned to the street, much less allowed to vote. The fact that so many felons are being released early in the first place is an issue in itself. We have too many people in jail in this country? Bullshit, we don’t have nearly enough.