They're worried about turning away potential votes.
In other words, if terrorists consituted a potential voting bloc, they'd be courting them, too. Your life and my life, rights, property and happiness don't matter. What matters is re-election. Period.
Our Founding Fathers recognized this, and did their best to make sure the worst among us, namely the political class, would never be able to completely dominate us. We have failed them and ourselves in that regard, unfortunately.
"Our Founding Fathers recognized this, and did their best to make sure the worst among us, namely the political class, would never be able to completely dominate us. We have failed them and ourselves in that regard, unfortunately."
YUP.
I have come to believe that term limits are essential. AND, that lawyers must be limited to 15% of their proportion of the population in all elected bodies.
AND that judges must be common people with a reputation for humility, hard work, balance, practicality, discernment, wisdom, fairness and integrity. And they should be reviewed periodically by similar common people to see if they have changed in character or practices.
Alas . . . won't be . . . unless and until after the end times Armageddon stuff.
"In other words, if terrorists consituted a potential voting bloc, they'd be courting them, too. Your life and my life, rights, property and happiness don't matter. What matters is re-election. Period."
Yup. There's a huge divide between the political class and the average American on this, as revealed by polls. Nothing explains it better. Latinos are the future political market as far as they're concerned.