I read TomPaine.com regularly. They have this daily section, Newsworthy , that's a bunch of bare links to stories of interest to progressives. Today they linked to a report about Florida restoring voting rights to ex-felons.
Their title was Florida Reverses Jim Crow-Era Disenfranchisement.
Um...no. They stopped piling it on. They didn't reverse a damn thing. They can't.
Nothing can be reversed. Don't let the fact that we best express the laws of physics in the language of mathematics fool you.
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What word would you
What word would you substitute for "reverses"?Â
My problem is the entire
My problem is the entire statement is too broad. Everyone who is concerned properly celebrated "Florida reverses ex-felon disenfranchisement." We need a LOT of work before we can talk about having reversed Jim Crow disenfranchisement anywhere in the country.
I wonder what the outcome of
I wonder what the outcome of the last two presidential elections would have been if ex-felons in Florida could have voted. It makes you think. Â
Looks like it would have
Looks like it would have been a straightforward loss in the first one to me.
After that, you can't get there from here. How would Gore have dealt with 9/11? Given that he's as AIPACed as Mrs. Clinton I am not sure he wouldn't have dome the same thing.