People in psychotherapy and mental health services are furious about this, because it perpetuates the idea that you could be shat on by your circumstances, disenfranchised, and lonely, yet your happiness level reflects your ability or inability to manage it, rather than your difficult circumstances.
These were people who had voted Labour all their lives, yet felt disenfranchised by a party which seemed to have stopped listening.
Early voting for the midterms begins today in Texas, and unfortunately many minority, elderly, poor and young voters will be disenfranchised from the process yet again.
Yet the UEC disenfranchised hundreds of thousands, with Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on rights in Myanmar, warning that restrictions on human rights in the country threatened the democratic process.
Should both I and Ms. Coulter be disenfranchised because we aren't yet married?
It's not clear yet how many were disenfranchised, but if the number is sufficiently large, say 20 million or more, it would raise serious questions about the credibility of the polls and of the elected government.
Yet women continue to be disenfranchised.
Yet young people are generally disenfranchised, lack educational and employment opportunities and rarely participate in decision-making at the community, provincial, or national level.
Well, one of the problems the judges had with the suit was that Mr. DiMaio hadn't actually voted yet, so technically he wasn't disenfranchised.
To date, nearly six million formerly-incarcerated Americans are disenfranchised -- they have served their debt to society, yet are denied this basic Constitutional right.
