The 19th Amendment, Was it the Beginning of the End for America?

The Way One Vike Sees it ^ | 3/2/10 | OV

[Tina Grazier]

This is a long read, but it's a good read. Regardless of which side you come down on you are bound to have an opinion.

Being a woman, I have always said that this country screwed up when it gave us the right to vote because way too many of my female friends continually vote with their hearts and not their heads. Like Ann Coulter I would gladly give up my right to vote if we could take it away from the rest of the women of America. Then I don't think we would ever see another Democrat elected to congress, let alone the White House.

[eyedigress]

That was it. Nixon didn’t help either. Women had a voice to share with their husbands. Women many times were the voice of reason when tensions in the political world came to a head. All of that was removed. We are left with the aftermath.

[LukeL]

IMO the 17th amendment was the beginning of the end.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

I’d argue the Republic died the day the 17th Amendment was enacted; no longer did the States have a direct say in the Nation’s capital (the People being represented by the Representatives, the Government by the Executive).

[MistrX]

Shoulda never let ‘em vote.

[muleskinner]

The only reason 90% of leftist women are in Congress or this administration is the 19trh. Pelosi, Boxer, H.R.H. Clinton, that yaping head of pubic hair from Florida, the list goes on...

[Salvavida]

I appreciate your honesty.

I’m divided on the issue. On the one hand, the order of creation and the consistency of the Bible calls for men to be the leaders. But on the other hand, if a nation that once derived its freedom based on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, then walks away from that very principle: the 19th Amendment would not have mattered.

In either case, it certainly doesn’t undermine the importance that women have for the health of society, and the church for that matter.

[trumandogz]

You could get rid of the First Amendment easier than you could the 19th.

[parsifal]

I always wanted to post something like this, but even I didn’t have the guts. Darn good post and something to think about.

parsy, who is scared of women

[Tina Grazier]

Ain’t that the truth....LOL

[BIGLOOK]

Too good to pass up......ping

Sir Thomas Moore sought his wife's advice regularly.

[eyedigress]

It created a major division that was never needed in the first place. It was Satan’s little start. Kill the family.

[fr_freak]

I actually made the argument a while back to a lady friend of mine that giving women the vote actually gave them a disproportionate amount of power, because when men were only voting, women still had a lot of influence over their men and therefore were influencing votes. The proof, in my opinion, is the fact that the 19th passed in the first place. Giving them the vote meant they got a vote AND influence over the votes of weaker-minded men.

So my lady friend doesn't say anything about it at the time, but doesn't talk to me for a good two weeks, after which she calls me up out of the blue and says "Did you really mean that?" I said "Mean what?" "That women shouldn't vote." Turns out she was stomping mad about that to the point of wanting to cry and end our friendship. After she told me that, I said, "So you've been mad about a silly conversation we had two weeks ago? Well, there's another reason women shouldn't vote."

So two weeks go by...

[Nateman]

The beginning of the end was the 16th amendment (Income Tax). With no limit on what the Federal Government could take from your labors, the rest of the Constitution was essentially made meaningless. The only real surprise is that the contradiction in values it entailed has taken so long to bring us to this sad point. The Constitution is also unlimited in the amount of debt it can accumulate. That was a mistake from day one but unavoidable due to the costs of the Revolution.

By the way I think a good cure to the problem of liberal women voting would have been to restrict the vote solely to veterans.

[Tina Grazier]

I understand, but it’s not my article. I just posted it. Another freeper named OneVike wrote it. Being a woman I am not limited by the emasculation you men feel.

[Junior_G]

That is hilarious! I don’t doubt it’s true, but thanks for the laugh.

[Hoodat]

IMO the 17th amendment was the beginning of the end.

Agreed. And of course the amendment immediately before it.

[eyedigress]

It’s not emasculation honey. The reason there is no safety anymore is the government has felt the need to take it over. That is due to the destruction of the family head. It is quite easy to understand. It will not correct now.

[higgmeister]

Seventeenth Amendment has done much more damage than women's suffrage.

[parsifal]

You are so lucky. My ex-wife used to keep mine in her purse. I got them back in the divorce. Now, I’m scared to use them.

parsy, who loves his guitar instead