00:05:02.920It's just, this is, like, more of a philosophical and, like, governmental argument.
00:05:06.020But it's because it prevents, because if criminals couldn't vote, you would have a surplus of government power concentrated where people would be appointed as criminals so that they would not have the ability to vote, right?
00:05:15.380So, if you look at, like, most constitutional monarchies today, criminals can vote.
00:05:19.560Because then you don't want judges to be able to be bought for their votes, right?
00:05:22.920Because then they can take political decisions in court.
00:05:25.040And what you want to avoid is political decisions in court.
00:05:27.120You don't want to say, he's a criminal, if you have the authority to say that, to take away their vote.
00:05:30.880I thought in the U.S., criminals can't vote.
00:05:32.580I was raised in a Canadian constitutional monarchy.
00:05:35.360And I very much agree that, even though, like, I don't support criminals and nobody likes criminals, whatever.
00:05:39.800But we can't give, beginning on the Soviet Union, which is where I spent the first nine years of my life, a lot of people were deemed thought criminals.
00:05:46.340And immediately, you know, they're removed from sort of the...
00:05:59.940Well, in the U.S., you should just be property owners.
00:06:02.740Remember when you had to be vaxxed to get a job or to get on a bus or to go to a restaurant, et cetera, et cetera?
00:06:08.380Those people, that's a second-class thing because they said, well, you're a criminal against society because you're creating an excess risk of society,
00:06:13.500which turned out to be untrue and completely manipulative.
00:06:15.920But that's where we run into that sort of issue.
00:06:43.540Like, let's say benevolent dictatorships.
00:06:45.700There's a constitutional monarchies like Canada.
00:06:47.140But, like, benevolent dictatorships like the UAE are amazing because they have amazing leadership that invests in infrastructure and people.
00:06:53.720Like, it's one of the greatest places on earth, right?
00:06:55.640But benevolent dictatorships always have that risk of flipping to not being so benevolent.
00:06:59.100And then you turn into a Venezuela situation, right?