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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.

Irresponsible voters are the reason this country has fallen so far so fast. For example, how many people would vote for the various entitlement programs if the money to pay for it came out of their own pockets? That was the reason for the or5ginal voting rights restrictions in the US Constitution. Unfortunately, progressives, in order to get their ridiculous ideas through, knew they have to get more irresponsible voters on the rolls. Lowering the voting age to 18 was one way, because people are never so gullible and irresponsible as when they are young, and letting indigents vote was another, because people who can't succeed on their own are more likely to vote to screw those that can.

Finally, we have women. Frankly, women just have a different base psychology than men. In general, they will happily sacrifice liberty for security, and they instinctively vote to get themselves "free" resources as much as possible, which directly results in an all-powerful nanny state. Lastly, women are, unfortunately, much more prone to emotional manipulation, especially by a politician they find "sexy". The progressives/Marxists recognized long ago that the key to getting their agenda passed was women voting. That's a fact. It probably is unrealistic to believe that we'll get rid of women's suffrage now, but we can still learn our lesson for the rebuild after we collapse.