Repeal the 19th!

At university, I was talking with a peer one day and the topic of women's right to vote came up. I just coolly said "Yeah, that was a mistake..." She called me a troll. However, I knew what I was talking about. Women's suffrage was the gravest mistake our country has ever made. One of the most obvious reasons was in a country where half the idiots already voted for power rights, they decided to let the other half of the idiots have the right to vote as well. But for a myriad of reasons was women's suffrage an egregious mistake that should have never been made.

The truth of the matter is that the many leaders of women's suffrage were racists. I'm not talking about the kind that denied white privilege. I'm talking about the William Cardinal Kasper type of racist who will openly mock and denigrate non-white people. Murray N. Rothbard perhaps gives the most devastating critiques of the women's suffrage movement in his book The Progressive Era. Indeed, "[t]he women's suffrage movement was heavily pietist from the beginning" (156). There was little room for a Catholic to have desired such a monstrous thought.

"The pietist/liturgical split on the woman suffrage question is seen in a report by a Colorado feminist explaining the defeat in 1877 referendum: the Methodists (most strongly pietistic) were 'for us,' the less pietistic Presbyterians and Episcopalians 'fairly so,' and while the Roman Catholics 'were not all against us,' clearly they were expected to be." (160) This began to really fuel an anti-immigrant sentiment amidst these racist champions of women's right to vote. "It is evident that much of the drive for woman suffrage came from upper-class WASP women who deeply resented the fact that their social inferiors, lower-class immigrants and 'foreigners,' were allowed to vote while they were not." (160)

Citing Anthony and Harper, "the worst elements have been put into the ballot box and the best elements kept out. This fatal mistake is even now beginning to dawn upon the minds of those who have cherished an ideal grandeur of a republic, and they dimly see that in woman lies the highest promise of its fulfillment." (160) Wow...racism, femi-Nazism, and misandry all rolled into one! And the initial thoght was what these women wanted was equal opportunity in the political system. No. What the suffragettes wanted was nothing good. It was power, control, opportunity to dominate. Much like the whiny atheists of today. "Those who fear the foreign vote will learn eventually that there are more American born women in the United States than foreign-born men and women; and those who dread the ignorant vote will study the statistics and see that the percentage of illiteracy is much smaller among women than amongst men." (160-161) The statement, in full, reads as a misandrist power-grab with a thick layer of racism to go on top.

Citing Anthony again regarding the failed Colorado referendum, "6,666 men voted 'Yes.' Now I am going to describe [those] men ... They were native-born men, temperance men, cultivated, broad, generous, just men, men who think. ... 16,007 voted 'No.' ... Mexicans, who speak the Spanish language." (312) There is no doubt that Susan B. Anthony wrote and behaved like a white supremacist with a femi-Nazi attitude. The women's suffrage movement though meant to bring in society inward on itself. Anthony Esolen, describing the history, notes that "[m]any of the suffragettes were also leaders of the temperance movement, which aimed to shame men into giving up strong drink" (Out of the Ashes, 113). This is where Anthony's strong anti-man rhetoric originated. "Many American counties, bowing to their influence, were 'dry' before the Volstead Act prohibited the sale of liquor nationally. Pretty much everyone agrees now that Prohibition was ineffectual and a colossal mistake." (113)

Not only did women's suffrage hold a highly racially charged motivation, it came from a largely Pietistic background that scorned Catholics and High Anglicans. It scorned and shamed men. That was the reason for the passing of the 19th amendment in the first place. And no, we didn't get the better "half" of humanity voting. We ended up with the dirt-bags of society, like Margaret Sanger (another racist), voting. Even further, when men started caving into women's demands to vote, they became far less manly. American culture lost a strongly patriarchal ethos. A rule by the fathers. The fathers started to become slackers even further than they might have been before. The 20th century saw the moral degeneration of the family. That's what happens when you give women the right to vote.

The 19th amendment was clearly the worst mistake in American history. It would be a step in the right direction to heal the wounds wrought on humanity by the degenerate American culture to repeal it. We would at least get rid of over half the idiot voters in the country. Then we could focus on annihilating voting rights altogether. That would begin the slow and eventual process of restoring us to the legitimate monarchial rule that America was meant to have but overthrew long ago. End the racism! Repeal the 19th!