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It doesn't represent American ideals, but it does represent the reality of America's current (and past) political and cultural landscape. Making it difficult f
by josefresco 5y ago
It doesn't represent American ideals, but it does represent the reality of America's current (and past) political and cultural landscape.
Making it difficult for certain groups of people to participate in the democratic process is unfortunately a long-standing American tradition.
- sofixa 5y ago> It doesn't represent American ideals, but it does represent the reality of America's current (and past) political and cultural landscape Which ideals? Don't forget that the US literally started with slavery and land ownership-based voting rights for males only. Incredible progress has been made, but with huge caveats ( no slavery except as punishment, anyone can vote but... ).
- pyronik19 5y agoInsecure elections don't represent American ideals.
- CoastalCoder 5y ago> It doesn't represent American ideals Could you expand on that? My original comment was based on the assumption that the Florida issue demonstrated a lack of ideological consensus amongst Americans. Thus my "no true Scotsman" observation. So I see two ways that I might have been off the mark: (a) Florida's actions don't represent those officials' ideals, or (b) we somehow don't include those officials' ideals when talking about American ideals. Both (a) and (b) seem like interesting topics of discussion.