Posted on 09/24/2014 5:09:18 AM PDT by rellimpank
America has always been awash in bad ideas. The Founding Fathers spoke a good game about liberty but allowed America to become a slave republic, because they didn't want to alienate the Southern farmers and merchants who helped bankroll and fight the war for independence against the British.
The Southern states wanted access to American liberty based on skin color. They got their wish for disproportionate representation in the early republic with the three-fifths clause enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Tolerance of slavery was not only a bad idea, it has had disastrous consequences for America ever since.
Right up there in the annals of bad ideas were the notions that women didn't really need access to the ballot box, that genocide and forced relocation of Native Americans was "progress" and that "corporations are people, too" - an idea that got traction after the Civil War.
Most people who aren't brainwashed or willfully ignorant know this about our nation's history and are thoroughly mortified by it. We look back at bad ideas that were once taken as gospel and shake our heads in bewilderment.
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With an op ed like this, there are three possibly results.
1. As you found.
2. Biologically “female”, but androgynous.
3. Beta male.
Yes, men like Washington and Mason spent their own money to finance the war.
But they were not alone. Wealthy men north and south pledged their lives, their honor and their fortunes to the cause of freedom
Too bad the writer doesn’t go to AFRICA where his people have been and continue today, to Hold Their fellow man in Slavery, and they have for 1500 years. Black Slaves are bought and sold by Black Slave Owners in public almost everywhere on the African Continent, every single day.
Only the White Man abolished Slavery, anywhere in the world.
the point of not having women vote...was that by and large they vote for welfare
Not allowing Women to Vote came from them being dependent on their husbands and men in general, just like children are dependent on their families til a certain age. Allowing Women to Vote was the first Step in Destroying the American Family. Up until then The Man voted for his Family and the Family remained UNIFIED.
The same principle was applied to Non-Property Owners having ANY say in the Public Business, for they had No Stake in the game.
I still agree with both these sentiments.
Oh, I agree. Teachers should be humiliated by the claim none of hem are stable enough to be trusted with a gun.
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