> "Felons shouldn't get a vote" makes common sense on the surface, until one picks away the surface just a little and realizes that the easiest way to political

> "Felons shouldn't get a vote" makes common sense on the surface, until one picks away the surface just a little and realizes that the easiest way to politically disenfranchise an opponent would be to gain just a little more power than them and then make something core to their identity illegal. As an example, if you were - for example - a tech billionaire who is on the record as describing the 19th amendment as the end of freedom in the United States, and you wanted to make it impossible for as many women to vote as possible without actually fronting a repeal of that amendment, you could relentlessly support and fund efforts to make common healthcare procedures for women a felony.