2020 US election - The fat lady is warming up in the wings

[robkelk]

We used to be the First World country.  Then we sat on our laurels for too long, assuming that once we were at the top the world would freeze in place and keep us there forever.  Sorry, no.  The rest of the First World have kept pushing the definition forward until we slid out of it, except for the amount of weight we can throw around.

For example: Why are prisoners allowed to vote in South Africa but not in the UK?

When South Africa is more in line with the European Court of Human Rights than the USA is (and I'll point out right now that neither country is bound by the European Court of Human Rights), that's telling you something about human rights in the USA.