[metmom]

How do you account for the fact that the main political groups who clamored for all those rights for every group are the same ones now supporting open borders and insisting that illegals should have all the same rights and privileges as citizens, including voting?

Different people, so they are not strictly speaking the same groups.

Nor is your example valid. Because it's a blanket statement about the group as a whole.

[Albion Wilde]

Obviously, I disagree. Other than the original, laudable fight of the aboltionists to end slavery, it has not been white Christian married people who clamored for every other group besides male landowners to have the vote. Universal suffrage has mortally wounded the value of the vote. This republic was not meant to be a popular democracy.