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The Republicans are right....dead people, illegals, and felons should not be able to vote in elections. Democrats disagree....

After the 2020 presidential election the Republican party initiated a program of tightening election legislation in the states that it controls. I'm less interested in what it plays directly into Trump's "stolen election" agenda that is a deliberate lie not confirmed by any facts and thrown out of dozens of courts, however it does confirm his grip on the party. An open, modern and constitutional party would have examined the causes of the defeat, attempted to learn lessons and make positive changes. The Trump's party tacitly accepted the lie and started tweaking with the elections. More interesting is how regular, rank and file Republicans explain and justify it to themselves? How more opportunities to vote, as long as it correct and secure, can be wrong, in this century? Why arbitrary, difficult to understand and justify to an objective, non-partisan observer restrictions like limiting voting on Sundays (Texas)? Brennan Center for Justice tracked electoral changes in 14 states with 22 laws restricting election access in some way passed and more in the pipe. This can't be a coincidence. This is a concerted effort, a campaign. "Election" is not a word, it is a key and critical democratic institution. In this century even dictatorships strive to keep a facade of legitimacy via some sort of "election". The instruments they use is limiting access to vote; and manipulating with the the results of the vote. Both have been tried and are being tried by Republican party now. And if the institution of election is eroded and degraded by the partisan efforts to the point of meaninglessness, what would be the effect on the democracy, even if it helps to win this one "election"?

it was the culture it was the Victorian Canadian culture of 19th century Toronto and Torontonians didn't like it anymore, I didn't even like it, I was like everybody else in Toronto then we looked across the border to New York City and wanted to be like that and so mission accomplished, Toronto got to where it wanted to be, filthy & free in the American big leagues

I don't think you have spent any time IN some of these countries and understand how things actually work. Hamas, for instance, controls pretty much everything in Palestine. ALL aid will be claimed to be "for the children" as it is in so many other states. In truth, the money seldom sees a child unless the child labour doing whatever turns the ruling body's crank (and for Hamas, that means building rockets to shoot at Israel). To think this will ever be "humanitarian aid" is naive in the extreme.