Will people convicted of felonies help flip Florida blue? | Mic Dispatch

[@davidpar2]

Simple answer: NOPE!

[@TwinTalon01]

If you’re not responsible enough, mature enough, smart enough, compassionate enough, sensible enough, or Whatever enough, to stay out of prison, then No, you have no right to influence the direction of the country. You gave that up when you transgressed upon someone else. 20yrs out and no subsequent offenses, we can talk. Otherwise, you cross that legal line, and you forfeit voting.

[@arandomguy46]

They pay uncle sam so you're saying they don't have the right to choose where their money goes? You clearly don't understand that some felons(if not most) are influenced by abuse, poverty, drug addiction, TBIs, or brain tumors. The human mind is like a machine that gathers information from previous experiences to make decisions. In theory, if you gave people certain propaganda then that should change the individual's mindset. Things like TBIs or brain tumors have massive impacts on peoples thinking capacity, it's almost like a guitar out of tune. Read this study: A 2007 study, conducted in Minnesota, found the incidence rate of TBI among prisoners was almost 83 percent. Outside the criminal justice system, that rate drops to eight percent among the general U.S. population - about 24.6 million people - according to a 2012 study. It's more than just free will that makes decisions, it is the subconscious mind that makes a majority of your decisions. Factors such as poverty can cause drug addiction and selling drugs. There is a reason why in North Korea a lot of people are communist and in America most are democratic. The reason has to do with the information they are given that happens mostly in childhood. That is why kids are so gullible because they gather as much information as possible to use later in life. That is also partially why children generally have an easier time learning foreign languages. That is the long and complicated answer.