Agreed. And the knife through our heart was primarily granting women the right to vote during that timeframe.
Woman have a need for safety/security and gravitate toward feminist concepts like socialism. And sure enough, just a few short years after women were granted the franchise, FDR was elected. And his socialism was the beginning of the end. It was followed by LBJ’s socialism and on down the line to BHO’s socialism, which knows no bounds.
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.