I would say that the downhill trend that you observe can be more directly linked to allowing women to vote .... and thus became politically acceptable “the nanny state”.
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Ah, the best humor is based on Truth.
...and teenagers, and homeless bums (motor voter act).
Throw in FDR's Social Security and Johnson's Great Society where people were taught that you can vote for money for yourself out of other people's pockets and I think that would sum up our nation's decline.
bingo...absolutely. The founding fathers knew darn well that women tend to be too emotional to be given the responsibility of voting.
I agree that allowing women to vote has had a progressively corrosive effect on the American character. Women view the world much differently than men and do not apply the same logic or rules. IMHO, many of the liberal male politicians know better, but are pandering to the female vote. On the flip side, they have also had a positive, tempering effect on some of our national policies. On the whole, however, I think it has been a net loss.
While the above is what I believe, it is impossible to make that argument in public without sounding like a neanderthal loon.
Yeah but then we won't have had a good looking president to look at like President Clinton.
The vast majority of liberals in the House and the Senate have always been and still are men (admittedly some are gender-confused). According to 2004 statistics, more women than men voted. (http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p20-556.pdf) So how is the downhill trend women’s fault?
There seems to be a trend here all right, one that started with Adam blaming Eve for the fruit he voluntarily ate, despite his receiving instructions directly from God to not do so.
General selfishness and irresponsibility from all sectors is where I put the blame.