I know plenty of people with records. Few of them are white. Fewer still are white, cis, straight, and ablebodied.

If you look a certain way or dress a certain way, law enforcement tends to look for opportunities to harass or arrest you. So no, I don’t think it should be illegal to hold office as a felon. (I’m also against felons having their voting rights taken from them.)

Couldn’t we sail into the stars, boldly going where no human has gone before, leaving earth and its petty tyrants behind?