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>Packing the Supreme Court because you can't trust the justices appointed by the right to vote the right way? As much as I wish we would have breached this poi

by bsanr 5y ago

>Packing the Supreme Court because you can't trust the justices appointed by the right to vote the right way? As much as I wish we would have breached this point of trust by now, liberals have never actually packed the Supreme Court. >That crazy plan to make a separate state out of each DC neighborhood, so that DC would have dozens of senators? I have never heard of this. Please focus on things that have actually happened, and not wild conspiracy theories. >That is so ridiculously wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage#Dates_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage#Dates_by_co... Each point of contention, hard fought by conservatives, who were dragged kicking and screaming into the future of a country that ever-so-slightly further embodied its highest ideals, despite their protests.

AnimalMuppet 5y ago
I'm not sure what you think that article demonstrates. It certainly doesn't demonstrate that "The Right has never trusted the Left with the right to vote". I will give you that there have been times when the Right has not trusted the Left with the right to vote. I will give you that in some places, that is true right now. But a general, sweeping statement? "Never"? C'mon. You're simply wrong.
- bsanr 5y ago
  It demonstrates that >conservatives are married to a century-and-a-half-long campaign of doing whatever it takes to try to restrict voting along lines of identity (sex, race, class, location), and that liberals are the ones trying to get the citizens, of a country that prides itself on its free and fair democracy, to vote The protected classes in question tend to vote with the Left. Therefore, the Right has largely, generally, in sweeping fashion, resisted the extension and protection of major portions of the Left's right to vote. "Never" is the correct word. You are wrong.

by bsanr 5y ago

AnimalMuppet 5y ago

I'm not sure what you think that article demonstrates. It certainly doesn't demonstrate that "The Right has never trusted the Left with the right to vote". I will give you that there have been times when the Right has not trusted the Left with the right to vote. I will give you that in some places, that is true right now. But a general, sweeping statement? "Never"? C'mon. You're simply wrong.

bsanr 5y ago
It demonstrates that >conservatives are married to a century-and-a-half-long campaign of doing whatever it takes to try to restrict voting along lines of identity (sex, race, class, location), and that liberals are the ones trying to get the citizens, of a country that prides itself on its free and fair democracy, to vote The protected classes in question tend to vote with the Left. Therefore, the Right has largely, generally, in sweeping fashion, resisted the extension and protection of major portions of the Left's right to vote. "Never" is the correct word. You are wrong.