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Nah, it has been proven to work.
It doesn't work very well, but it still works to some degree, although there are far better and more effective means to reduce criminal activity.

No actually it doesn't.

His brutal human rights abuses are ineffective, and this is fact.

So please, when you say 'it has been proven to work', what did you mean, exactly?  Further, let's propose a highly theoretical situation: how can you accept literal psychological and physical abuse, racism, and instilling terror into communities, even if it had been proven 'effective'?  Are you actually going to say that letting a sociopath tyrant abuse his authority to ruin people as he sees fit is alright if he 'gets the job done'?  Are you truly going to weigh crimes against another in that fashion?  Are you going to weigh theft and drug use and 'being brown skinned' against over one hundred million dollars worth of taxpayer money being misused, actual concentration camps, actual negligent deaths, actual racism, actual civil rights abuse, actual fraud, and actual psychological torture? Can you really judge him favorably in that scenario, even if he had reduced crime statistics?

Can you step back, and take that information in, and realize that he has done all of that and crime statistics in his jurisdiction have rocketed upwards?  That he has made his county a racially segregated zone?  That he has brought terror and sorrow to his community?

Can anyone honestly do that and not think that Joe Arpaio is nothing to be respected, and everything to be despised?

Regardless, if someone truly believes that prison is about punishing and torturing more than it is about rehabilitating criminals, to the point that dehumanizing and allowing inmates to die in actual prison camps, they are not someone you should revere or put in a position of authority.

Some people just think that anyone who breaks any law should be dehumanized and tortured.  Obviously its not correct, but it's just how some people think.

Casmus still comes up 8 times outside of dialogue.  I wouldn't point this out if it weren't really obvious in an oral reading.  Try it out.

(An aside, but it's not exactly a secret that some people mistake a sense of humor with being able to repeat permutations of the same handful of 'jokes' endlessly.  This is apparent to anyone who's seen the Internet, obviously- outside of those with this affliction.)

Has anyone here done any work at polling places before?  A good buddy of mine has done so for the last few years and generally descibes it as a mixed bag of emotions, tending towards the depressing.

Yeah, siding with Arpaio even jokingly is in extremely poor taste, since the man is actually evil.

6th dimension.

and enforcing the New Testament as law".

Unless there's jots and tittles of the Old Testament they can use to reinforce their worldview.