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To think that people with extreme political views shouldn’t be allowed to vote?

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EdgyEagle · 24/11/2024 21:36

Far-left and far-right ideologies are tearing society apart. Should we limit the influence of extremists?

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neverbeenskiing · 27/11/2024 20:41

I find it odd that you're so affronted by being asked to define your terms. You want to remove people's right to vote based on their beliefs, it's perfectly reasonable for posters to want some clarity on what those beliefs are.

You have "alluded to far-right and far-left" but that's not exactly clear. Personally, I considered Suella Braverman, during her tensure as Home Secretary, to be a far-right politician. I'm not trying to be inflammatory, that's genuinely what I believe. But many people would disagree with me (as is their right) and some of those people might even say that having that opinion means my political views are 'far-left'. Yet I know a lot of people who are much more left wing than I am, and to them I'm probably more of a centrist. So who decides who is 'correct'?

Nc546888 · 27/11/2024 19:51

you can vote but as long as you vote as I say

InWithThePlums · 27/11/2024 19:45

peanutbuttertoasty · 27/11/2024 11:27

Absolutely not joking. I wish I was! There’s nothing funny about this government.

You can hate them for whatever reason, but calling them far left is just insane. Calling them left wing is enough of a stretch!

SherbetSweeties · 27/11/2024 14:36

Maybe you should move to North Korea since you apparently want to live in a dictatorship

StormingNorman · 27/11/2024 14:12

I would rather allow idiots to vote than live under an authoritarian regime.

VickyEadieofThigh · 27/11/2024 14:00

peanutbuttertoasty · 27/11/2024 08:37

Apart from the ones in Downing Street

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The notion that Keir Starmer is "far left" is hilarious.

peanutbuttertoasty · 27/11/2024 11:27

Absolutely not joking. I wish I was! There’s nothing funny about this government.

Cappuccinowithonesugarplease · 27/11/2024 09:13

Everyone is able to vote. Let's keep it that way!

InWithThePlums · 27/11/2024 09:11

peanutbuttertoasty · 27/11/2024 08:37

Apart from the ones in Downing Street

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You must be joking Grin

JumpingPumpkin · 27/11/2024 08:44

This is one of the oddest of many many odd questions seen on here. How can someone respond apparently genuinely that a definition of extreme isn't required when they intend to use it to withdraw voting rights.

As someone who thought the definition of woman was uncontroversial we have seen how quickly authoritarian policies can take hold. Allowing everyone to vote is our defence against this.

PastaAndChill · 27/11/2024 08:39

😂 Ha ha ha.

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Apart from the ones in Downing Street

RuminationStation · 27/11/2024 08:17

We need to shift how we use social media. That’s where extreme views are boiling. It should be a tool that we use but it’s become a way of manipulating populations and creating division and extremes. We are being manipulated by foreign interests that want us to be pitched against each other.

I don’t know what the answer is. It’s not curtailing democracy - but we do need to address this awful polarised, angry and divisive discourse.

There is more that unites us than divides us and now, more than ever, we need to be a United Kingdom and come together against the actual and real threats against us. Not turn on each other. We can have different views and debate these without it becoming extreme and vitriolic.

We have to listen to each other. Not trust what we see on SM without some significant critical thinking.

YearningForAWinteryWinter · 27/11/2024 08:13

This is ridiculous. May as well have a dictatorship and not let anyone vote.
I believe that we need extremes in politics to help us find the middle ground.

RedToothBrush · 27/11/2024 08:10

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Err yeah ok.

MagicSteaks · 27/11/2024 08:10

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InWithThePlums · 26/11/2024 17:17

MarketValveForks · 26/11/2024 13:11

The communist party regularly stand a candidate in our (staunchly labour) area for anyone who thinks the labour party are too right-wing. They generally lose their deposit.

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God loves a tryer.

SquawkerTexasRanger · 26/11/2024 17:12

Of course not you big ejeet, you can’t just decide you don’t like someone else’s views so you’re going to take away their right to vote 🙄

Hateam · 26/11/2024 17:08

JudgeJ · 26/11/2024 13:05

And Robert Lindsay, Power to the People!

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I loved Citizen Smith!

labamba007 · 26/11/2024 16:40

The irony of this is it's such an extremist view.

Notyouthful · 26/11/2024 13:55

Also ban people who always vote for X party as their late husband/parents voted for them.

Who is going to be affected by the results? You and not your late loved ones.

User37482 · 26/11/2024 13:33

My thinking that being a woman in a biological material reality not a feeling seems to make people think I’m a right wing nutcase. I don’t trust anyone to decide whats an appropriate opinion for a voter.

NothingMatterss · 26/11/2024 13:29

EdgyEagle · 24/11/2024 21:36

Far-left and far-right ideologies are tearing society apart. Should we limit the influence of extremists?

Funny enough, your post shows you have an extreme political view.

KimDarlingWeAreTheJongUns · 26/11/2024 13:29

Swimming against the tide here, but I run a small country in Asia and, in my opinion, this really is the only way.

In fact, this is what we already do. I am a true lover of democracy, but, as with so many things, there are limits. I, and my policies, are the only sensible, reasonable, measured ones that anybody could possibly agree with - thus we can know that anybody who wouldn't want to vote for me would defo be a dangerous extremist; that's why I ban any opposition from standing.

100% with you there, OP - let's smash those wicked dissidents who want to pervert the very nature of acceptable democratic politics.

MarketValveForks · 26/11/2024 13:11

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The communist party regularly stand a candidate in our (staunchly labour) area for anyone who thinks the labour party are too right-wing. They generally lose their deposit.

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