Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.
I don’t think it will have the same effect as “certified pedophile”. 1 in 9 Americans had been to prison, lots of people know someone who is a felon they can sympathize with. There are far less diddlers and people don’t like them. The lesson here would be to repeat the SA civil conviction IMO.
You’re both massively overstating the percentage of Americans have been to prison (more like 1 in 20) and assuming that most people have been to prison will identify with someone else as convicted of a crime (instead of thinking their circumstances are unique, unlike “real” criminals).
I would have to see a study with the numbers, I know 15 years ago it was 1 in 10 and they haven’t slowed down on locking people up.
Felons can’t vote, I’m talking about the people whose parents or aunts and uncles went to prison, calling someone a felon(derogatory) is more likely to alienate them.
And given that the DNC is willing to abandon any group in pursuit of the illusive uneducated white vote this seems counterproductive to their end goal. They would have more appeal using the felon line in front of a bunch of pious Arab nerds but burned that bridge to appeal to the Billy Bobs.
The least they could do is campaign to who they think are the most important demographic worthy of alienating all others the right way, and if you want that meth country vote SA is more damning than generic “felon”, which could be read as a Merle Haggard type. There’s a reason SVU is top Law & Order
It's even less than 1 in 20 according to bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/... which says it's "1 in 20 will go to prison at some point in their lives" not "have gone already."
