Schlafly was brilliant. I’ve known many Republicans that were so cowed by the feminist crowd that they continued to reject her until the end.
I love the bit about the feminist biographer preemptively gloating about how Schlafly would have responded to Trump’s defeat in 2016.
If the caption is the level of ignorance I fear for the rest. Finance Capitalism? There is no such thing. There is Capitalism. There is Corporatism aka Mercantilism aka Public- Private Partnership.
Post WWII The US has moved away from capitalism of any type. It has moved maybe 5% in the direction of Socialism and 40% in the direction of Corporatism.
Finance Capitalism... George Orwell meet Chomsky.
A great woman. I hope this series introduces her to a lot of young viewers who may have never heard of her.
Despite the so-called "progressive" movement, with its decades-long pressures to impose a false ideology on the society, insisting on a form of "group think" on women and girls, those who were influenced by Schlafly have made significant contributions to preserving liberty and fighting tyranny over the minds of a total segment of the population.
In my large group of old ladies (68 yrs), I have been chastised greatly for not even caring about watching Mrs America. They cannot believe that I did not believe in the ERA. I could never get an answer from them about what rights I had that were not equal. I just get an intense glare that says ‘are you crazy?’ My mother was born in 1912, became a successful concert pianist in Boston area, had a 2 hour show each week at Radio City Music Hall, before she ‘gave it all up’ to marry the man of her dreams, an 8th-grade educated Texan. She moved to Texas in 1945 and raised SIX children. She was a piano teacher all of my life. Never did she let the feminists have any influence on her. She was already liberated! I can understand challenging pay scales and promotions becoming equal. But that is considered good business ethics. The free market can take care of those challenges easily. No need to condemn half of the world who don’t obey some hag’s warped belief system.
I’ve watched the series because I was too young to appreciate the politics of the 70s. The not so subtle bias is prevalent from the first episode. I would recommend a detox after each episode - watch the Eagle Forum videos, and others, that correct the record with actual footage of her debates/speeches, and interviews with people who knew her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjiIwLjEKPU&list=PL9CC8V5vDzr13ZxJ_tOYiVVYi-4MvHRIb
https://www.realmrsamerica.com/era/
I forgot to mention, last season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” attacked Schlafly out of nowhere.
They had Mrs. Maisel (in NY) inexplicably cutting a LIVE (and national WTF?) radio ad for Schlafly’s longshot 1960 Congressional campaign (in ILLINOIS, where I believe she stepped into the GOP primary as a write in cause no one filed to run). Maisel (and everyone else in the room) was disgusted by the (absurdly lampooned) political copy she was supposed to read and tanked the ad.