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August 26, 1920: The 19th Amendment Goes Into Effect, Granting Women the Vote (OMG!)
The Nation ^ | 8/26/2015 | Richard Kreitner

Posted on 08/28/2015 11:11:45 AM PDT by FiddlePig

When the 19th Amendment went into effect 95 years ago today (8/26), The Nation was already looking ahead to the deeper implications of women’s suffrage. “What Will They Do With The Vote?” asked a piece by Stella Crossley Daljord. The answer has implications for the state of American politics today, almost a century after the extension of suffrage to women.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 19thamendment; bigbigbig; bigmistake; misogyny; womenssuffrage
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“While the boys were off fighting the Kaiser, women got the right to vote… then everything that comes natural to a man… drinkin’, gamblin’ and whorin’ was made illegal, and it all went to Hell!” - Tector Crites (played by Ned Beatty in the 1972 movie “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean”)
1 posted on 08/28/2015 11:11:45 AM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: FiddlePig
And that spelled the end of America. Case in point, 2008 and 2012.

Sheep.. Baaaaa baaa baaaaaaaaa baaa

2 posted on 08/28/2015 11:15:39 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: FiddlePig

It’s been downhill ever since.


3 posted on 08/28/2015 11:15:42 AM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: FiddlePig

No wonder they call it ‘suffrage’.


4 posted on 08/28/2015 11:16:21 AM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: FiddlePig

>>What Will They Do With The Vote?

Answer: vote for the pretty boy, the one who feels their pain, the one who promises to take care of them and love them longtime.


5 posted on 08/28/2015 11:18:32 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Three amendments created permanent Leftist voting blocs:

15th (blacks)
19th (wymyn)
26th (stupid college brats)


6 posted on 08/28/2015 11:19:39 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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To: FiddlePig

My wife has always said that was a mistake. Women’s wants are incompatible in the main with freedom and small government. Consciously they may desire thees things but they tend to vote for the pol who promises security for them and their children, just to be safe.


7 posted on 08/28/2015 11:21:28 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: FiddlePig

I am female and I don’t think that Women should be allowed to vote, I think land owners should be allowed to vote.

By the Way, I am a Land owner!


8 posted on 08/28/2015 11:22:07 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: FiddlePig
August 26, 1920: The 19th Amendment Goes Into Effect, Granting Women the Vote (OMG!)

It appears to have been a major mistake. I've read that all Democrat Presidents since elected were a consequence of Women Voters.

This isn't the worst constitutional amendment, but it certainly seems to be in the "bad" category.

9 posted on 08/28/2015 11:23:45 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: GraceG

I was getting ready to post the identical thing. Totally agree on both points!

“only” land owners.


10 posted on 08/28/2015 11:24:35 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: arthurus

This is why a woman should NEVER be president, or even court judges. They are dominated by their feelings in ways that men just aren’t.


11 posted on 08/28/2015 11:24:37 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Bryanw92
Answer: vote for the pretty boy, the one who feels their pain, the one who promises to take care of them and love them longtime.

Women's Vote + Television. It all started with JFK.

12 posted on 08/28/2015 11:25:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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15th (blacks) 19th (wymyn) 26th (stupid college brats)

You left out the 24th, which is the absolute worst of the bunch. It created a 21 trillion dollar welfare class, because that's how LBJ bribed people into supporting the Democrats.

I say as a matter of principle that allowing non-taxpayers to vote is utter folly. Again, 21 trillion dollars later, what good has come of it?

13 posted on 08/28/2015 11:25:45 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: FiddlePig

Women voting is a local and State matter.. when federal law TRUMPS state or local law... State Rights just got RAPED.. ABUSED.. SLAPPED.. BULLIED.. made worthless and an after thought..

AND ... States become VASSALS of central givernment..
preparing the way for Socialism... Communism, or Fasicism.. or WORSE..

Worse—> A federal leviathan invading every aspect of your lives.. making States mere provinces like in Canada..

Basically YOU AND YOU RIGHTS JUST GOT SCREWED...
However; some want to be screwed, their called democrats..


14 posted on 08/28/2015 11:26:44 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: GraceG
I am female and I don’t think that Women should be allowed to vote, I think land owners should be allowed to vote.

By the Way, I am a Land owner!

I think the right to vote should be contingent upon an interest in the Nation's success, and by payment of taxes.

I think the franchise should be restricted to those people who pay the costs of government.

I have no objection to women voters, provided they themselves are taxpayers and pay into the treasury.

I think among the class of taxpayers, common sense and good judgement constitutes the majority.

15 posted on 08/28/2015 11:28:59 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: GraceG
I think land owners should be allowed to vote.

I can see some enterprising scammer buying several acres, subdividing it into ~1 sq. ft. plots, and selling them to people who want to vote.

I agree with the basic principle that the vote should be restricted to productive folks with skin in the game. It just needs to be thought through properly.

16 posted on 08/28/2015 11:29:14 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: dfwgator
Women's Vote + Television. It all started with JFK.

FDR?

17 posted on 08/28/2015 11:29:53 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: FiddlePig

We’ve all heard about the women’s suffrage movement and how women were finally given the right to vote with the approval of the 19th amendment. But in truth, many states had already granted women the right to vote—just not all states. Women in Wyoming had been voting since 1890, with Colorado following close behind in 1893. The 19th amendment, approved in 1919, forced all states to follow what many were already doing.


18 posted on 08/28/2015 11:29:58 AM PDT by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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Women's Vote + Television. It all started with JFK. FDR?

That you, Mr. Vice President. ;)

19 posted on 08/28/2015 11:30:50 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I must confess that I don’t get your point.

sorry.


20 posted on 08/28/2015 11:31:36 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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