[fr_freak]

What you describe is tyranny.

Ha - so you're under the impression that what we had in this country before the early 1900s was tyranny? The right to vote was limited because the Founders knew that letting irresponsible, incompetent, or otherwise unreasonable people vote would LEAD to tyranny immediately, where people would vote for whomever promises them the most free stuff, necessarily taken out of the pockets of their neighbors. Letting unproductive men vote was not allowed, and letting women vote was not allowed because women instinctively expect to be taken care of, and will tolerate being controlled in order to achieve that. Thus, they tend to support a powerful government full of freebies for women.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The poster said that women should be required to vote conservative. I said requiring an ideology to vote would be tyranny.

Women could not originally vote. Neither could slaves. Our government ideals were brilliant, but they were not entirely, immediately realized.

My tyranny comment was about requiring an ideology. But it is still tyranny to women if they are not allowed to vote. It was then and it is now. Depending on the quality of their husbands I guess the tyranny was to varying degrees, but it doesn’t change the fact. Anyone who thinks we could take voting rights away from women — OR SHOULD — is nuts.