Missouri introduces ‘Donald Trump’ bill making it legal for felons to run for office

IMHO all citizens, in or out of jail should be able to vote. If one is a citizen, one should be automatically registered to vote at 18 yo.

Felons actually can vote in Missouri if they've completed their sentence. This includes parole and probation terms.

Permanent disenfranchisement is actually less common than people think. It's still too common by far, and we need to revisit the reasoning for disenfranchisement while incarcerated or on probation, but in most of the country a felony doesn't prevent voting permanently.

It applied to local and state offices but apparently not federal.

He won't be old enough, but that would be fucking incredible if he ran.

FWIW we in this shithole of a state have little to no power even if we vote for things. We vote down every "Right to Work" amendment they've shoved on the ballot for decades and it just keeps popping back up.

We passed expansion of Medicaid and they simply did nothing to expand it.

We're all waiting for how they shut down the abortion access amendment that just passed in November.

They force state control of police in the big cities to oppress the brown and black people. They gerrymander the districts. They make voting extremely difficult. They brutalize peaceful protests. Call the national guard in for a mouse fart in the wrong zip code.

It is a fascist dictatorship.

But please, everyone, stop thinking that we here endorse this ferkakte theocracy. We are fighting. We always have. The boot has been systemically on our throats for decades.

It is hard to leave too. The cost of living is so low here that it makes it difficult to even move across the river into Illinois. It is a trap. A trap most of us are born into.