Posted on 01/24/2023 1:09:06 PM PST by absalom01
With Jacinda Ardern's welcome exit from the ranks of world political leaders, leaving a shambles of constitutional freedom and human rights in her wake, now is perhaps an opportune time to reconsider the passage of the 19th amendment in American politics as part of our ongoing series of "To Save America" modest proposals advocating repeal of the most destructive tamperings with the original Constitution. We've already made the arguments for the repeal of the 16th, 17th, 18th (done!), and 26th amendments, so now it's time for the women's suffrage movement to take its turn in the barrel.
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Start with this: there is no intrinsic, enumerated right to vote in the Constitution; eligibility was left up to each state. Voting therefore is neither a civil right nor a God-given natural right (as history clearly shows), but an earned privilege to be granted under certain circumstances or after an individual had satisfied various specified criteria such as attaining the age of his majority, being a male, a property owner, etc.
This was an outgrowth of the original conception of the United States as a voluntary alliance of hitherto sovereign states, each of which ceded some portion of its autonomy to the new federal government, but which reserved all other rights to itself. Indeed, the Tenth amendment makes this explicit: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In other words, the federal government did not create the states, they created the federal government.
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And I would defy any man to vote more conservative than I do.
Over the years I have known of many women who are more sensible than men in their voting and their politics. I have voted for women in elections several times.
I think my position actually falls more in lines of "If you pay taxes, you should vote."
I do believe that single females represent a large core of foolish voters, but if they are paying taxes, then foolish or not, they should probably have their say.
I would also very much like to see the 26th repealed.
I’ve been thinking something similar and have been meaning to get around to writing about it, but not so provocatively, as is the fashion these days. This article is in keeping with that fashion of being provocative for its own sake, but not as much as most.
As a woman myself, I too would consider giving up my right to vote for the betterment of society, which would in turn support God’s Great Mission and concern, which is souls, souls, souls.
But that’s not only politically impossible, but actually not even a good idea, given so many other factors — including the fact that, at this point, the return of Christ might be close. Women voting is just part and parcel with a modern, “democratic” society, and not only hardly the worst, but all things considered, is one of the better things.
Another problem with this piece is how it simply assigns all the blame to women and exonerates men way too much. It’s just too simple in bringing forward so many old man-versus-women tropes, and so it is not true in many respects. The subject matter is gigantic, so overgeneralizing isn’t surprising, but we also need to break away from simply defining different groups by stereotypes.
Under the influence of Christ, many women are less like deceivable Eve than many men are. Modern society has “reinvented” so many things that undermine reality (reality being the Truth, which comes from God alone) that the faults whichwomen are more prone to are just one problem of a great many. Men, too, have their own, and they’re being massively exploited today as well.
These are several weaknesses of women:
1. Women are more physically susceptible to stress. (And that’s especially true without a strong faith in Christ, which many women don’t have).
2. Women are less well informed than men. That’s not a curious and regrettable fact, but a real problem.
This is an age (beginning with TV) where rushing to judgment and putting the cart before the horse are encouraged. Women seem somewhat more prone to that — to make up their minds emotionally, on insufficient evidence, and then to defend their decision with “research.” The passion to do the hard work of investigation too often only comes after an emotional decision is made.
Maybe overall, women don’t have quite as much stamina for uncertainty, for open-minded investigation (although again, there are many women, especially Christian women, who do outperform many men). “Cognitive dissonance” is stressful. I sat on a jury once, and merely the thought of discussing the evidence stressed out the other women especially. One in particular was so angry that she cried. Maybe that’s partly why they’re not as well informed on current events, either. Striving for impartiality requires too much stressful uncertainty and holding a lot of contrary Soinformation in one’s mind.
I think, too, that women are more inclined to bring the mother and school teacher mindframes into larger society, and they don’t work so well there. Other people aren’t children to be disciplined so they “play nice.” The peaceful behavior expected of children in a family or in a schoolroom isn’t the way a society and a democratic government can function. To the contrary, real conflicts need to be vented, not suppressed. Our society is supposed to provide relatively peaceful outlets for people’s grievances against each other to be heard and basically litigated. The world and our society aren’t a school room, but a potential war zone if people’s interests are unreasonably subjugated to gradeschool civility and etiquette. Too many women, today, too, react as if women can’t be criticized — so the problems caused by bringing the “feminine” into more power, especially the tendency of women to turn things into a schoolroom, get further ignored.
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“Gender differences in stress response: Role of developmental and biological determinants,” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425245/
“New Study Suggests Women Are Less Informed About Current Events,” https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/07/u-k-researchers-say-women-know-less-about-current-events-than-men-were-not-convinced.html
Any woman who claims a right to murder innocent little preborn babies between conception and birth is unworthy of a right to vote.
In the current regime, people who are net receivers of benefits from the government do not have skin in the game and absolutely should not be permitted to vote. They have a conflict of interest. The fact that a majority of such people are women is not my problem.
the feminist movement
Has been an absolute disaster for civilization.
Please list the things that you want Republicans to change.
Disenfranchising people based on income is a blueprint for a slave state.
“But even the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Who on the national stage, say in his or her acceptance speech at the Republican Convention, “I promise to repeal the 19th Amendment?”
Who is going to take that first step?
We got Wilson because of TR.
You are thinking right. I like your style!
Politics is downstream of culture. This is the "culture" stage.
Who on the national stage, say in his or her acceptance speech at the Republican Convention, “I promise to repeal the 19th Amendment?”
That person is probably still in school at the present time, and not in politics.
I also mentioned that maybe it’d be best if we allowed only those who own property (land) the right to vote.
Agree.
The gibsmedats consider that racist.
Repeal the 17th and 26th amendments.
I got a sister in law who went through college and got a degree in pharmacy. WITH HONORS.
She votes strict democrat, and if she does not vote democrat, she will vote green party or something like that.
Is there any logic to that?
Dumbest broad ever to walk the earth.
As I’ve said a few times before, the proper education of women should have been the first step, not the vote.
A woman who was of voting age in 1920 could have received only an 8th-grade education, according to the laws at that time.
I’ll be the first to say that 8th grade education might well outpace a lot of what passes for a hs diploma these days.
True enough. But the fact remains that women were voting on important issues when their highest reading achievement was the local tabloid.
Switch your registration to No Party or Independent. They won’t touch you with a ten foot pole.
Women as a group, but clearly not all of them, have proven they do not deserve to vote and the 19th amendment should be repealed.
Repealing the 17th is far more to the point. We now have a hundred mini-fuhrers from DC dictating policy to our states, complete with international funding and globalist agendas. Time to return the Senate to deliberation over the effect of laws on the states, rather than grandstanding over collectivist issues.
No more so than our current form of government. The populace is divided into democratic party clients and slaves of democratic party clients.
Allowing people on public assistance to vote for ever more public assistance makes slaves of everyone who isn't on it.
Over the last sixty years the entire economy has been transferred several times from workers to looters. It has created a tremendous incentive to move from the workers to the looters, it has destroyed families, massively increasing social problems and moving even more people to the looter side of the balance sheet.
And what turns people into slaves is not whether they can vote in any situation, but whether they can get into a situation to vote.
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