Posted on 08/14/2012 4:47:26 PM PDT by SJackson
Some of the most vitriolic opponents of Sarah Palin were liberal women. So I’m not sure that Bernie’s analysis holds much water when he argues that “women will alway vote for the woman.”
Just listening to women talk critically about another woman (when she is not present) is instructive.
This type of argument only helps our enemies. Do women have the natural right to be free or not?
Exactly. What the hell?
The women’s vote has been far, far, to the right of the Catholic vote since it started.
END WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - THEY’VE SUFFERED LONG ENOUGH!
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.
96% for Obama as against 88% for Kerry in 2004 or 90% for Gore in 2000?
Its whimsy, folks. Lighten up.
I assume you have more than a passing familiarity with the enemy?
“Maybe we should take the vote away from black Americans since they only voted skin color in 2008.”
You racist! Just because 25% of black males have criminal record, are amongst the least educated group, and have significant percentage under welfare, it does not mean that blacks have been greater drain on society than any other voting block. Blacks have been oppressed by the white man for centuries, so it is natural of them to unite against the Man.
To have no voice in your own governance is to be a subject not free.
Would you be free in a republic that denied your right to vote?
I would fight against such a system secure in the knowledge that it denied me my natural rights.
You might be comfortable as a subject but I would mock your claim that you were free.
That comment made me wish for a “Like” button.
to vote, you have to pass a test about the candidates
Well, my definition of free encompasses my right to vote.
But plenty of other people feel they are free whether they vote or not. That’s all I am saying. Stand down.
This is going to be a great debate within the next couple hundred years - sooner if we have a massive economic collapse in the West. We are not ready to talk about it yet - probably not in our lifetimes, but it's coming.
Heinleins ideas of distinguishing civilian from citizen and that citizenship must be earned is looking better and better every day.
In the end, I think the real issue here is, we simply can not allow those dependent on the government to vote themselves more freebies. Yes, women tend to fall for emotional political appeals and that is a problem. But it would be enough to simply decide that a full voting citizen (man or woman) is only someone who is not collecting cash from the productive members in society. One day society is going to realize that the dependent class shouldn't be voting.
Definitely not an issue to discuss seriously right now though, any person or party that brought it up would be destroyed at this time.
Keep that a secret. And I even gave a hint.
Leaving aside the satirical nature of the article, in a 21st century context that wouldn't be much different than restricting the vote to landowners.
I'd sign, I don't want women suffering.
Travel on then...
Agreed; but the intelligence requirement must also be contained in that scenario, I have known an awful lot of really dumb service folks. Of course that was back in the late 60s and early 70s when they were drafting any thing that could breath and walk at the same time. I enlisted in 68 and met some real dim bulbs in the Corps; and they were still very particular about the quality of recruit they were willing to take. A lot of them were busted right out of boot camp and sent to other services or the reserve.
It is a fact that Democrats always win the female vote, so while I don’t agree we should prohibit women from voting, their voting is destroying America. That’s a fact. Women elect socialists in much greater numbers than men.
Anyway...
The serious answer to our problem is that freeloaders should not be allowed to vote. If you are on welfare or government assistance, you don’t vote. If you don’t pay state or federal taxes, you don’t vote in state or federal elections.
I would restrict voting just to those who own property or who pay state and local income taxes. That would solve the problem of the parasites voting themselves largesse from the public treasury.
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