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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's one of those safe-guards that democracy implements that's currently having rather unintended consequences.

The reasoning is that taking away voting rights is far too easy to abuse, and if a majority of people agree with whomever you wanted to prevent from voting/getting elected then you're fucked anyway.

Which, incidentally, is looking like a very real possibility right now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That reasoning is missing a crucial part: even if you're fucked anyway, why is it still okay to put a criminal in charge? Will it improve anything? Or do we think of the "fucked" condition very differently?