• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Shouldn’t you have the right to run for office when you have paid back your debt to society?

    I mean if you can get an opponent convicted and it prevents them running, it feels kind of undemocratic.

    BTW I’m not talking about tRump, he should be behind bars since ages already.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Yeah probably. The same logic ought to be applied to felons who currently lose their right to vote. Rights being treated as privileges…

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      6 months ago

      I’m pretty sure the last guy to run for office from a cell was a socialist.