Felon Voting

At some point since the CNN Townhalls, giving felons the right to vote while in jail became the cause of all True Believers.  I don't know exactly how that happened, but I doubt it extends much beyond Woke Twitter.

The arguments for felon voting is actually to have fewer felons in jail.  I'm 100% behind this.  There needs to be fewer people incarcerated for non-violent crimes.  Felons voting while paroled?  I can see that.  Felons voting after there sentences are complete?  That is a critical civil rights issue.

There is, I suppose, an argument that giving incarcerated felons the right to vote is an issue of civil rights, but incarcerated felons lose all sorts of rights. The right to assembly, the right to privacy, the right to decide when they get out of bed in the morning.  They are in prison.  They have had due process. 

The counterargument, aside from the fact that they are felons who have had their rights stripped by due process, is mostly political.  Why should we worry about Jeffrey Dahmer or Dzokhar Tsarnaev or James Holmes getting the vote?  Why should you gift the GOP a bunch of attack ads that will woo back those moderate suburban women who drifted in the Democratic camp in 2018?  It's a great example of epistemological closure, where people of any political stripe can dive so far into their own world that they fail to see that politics isn't about convincing the people who already agree with you, but finding a way to convince people who don't live and breathe politics to give you a chance to wield real power.

What a moronic battle to pick.