Should the mentally ill be allowed to vote? Shrink Rap has issues with this:

Can I cringe long and hard now? The mentally ill shouldn’t vote? What’s a mental illness? Anyone who’s had an episode of depression or mania? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? How about those panic attacks? And we can’t figure out at what instant someone with dementia becomes unsafe to drive, how do figure out the instant at which they should stop voting? Anyone confined to a psychiatric facility? Anyone getting disability payments for a psychiatric disorder?

Dumb people can vote. Illiterate people can vote. Republicans can vote. Ugly people can vote. Why should the mentally ill have a standard different from anyone else’s?