Things to ponder...
1776 – Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and I believe, inadvertently used the word “men” instead of "people" when writing “..all men are created equal..”
This error which would deny women the right to vote (and other things), was I think, simply a sign of the times… women were not equals in the eyes of society and in general, men. He simply hadn’t a thought of what that mistake might later mean.
1920 – It took 144 years for women to get the right to vote and only then after a long battle.
1972 – It took nearly 200 for the Equal Right Amendment (giving essentially, women the same right men had across the board) to pass Congress… again, after a long, long battle. However, the old white men in Congress snuck in a clause that would delay it becoming an Actual Amendment without most states ratifying it. They also put a 7-year time limit on those ratifications.
By the time enough states ratified the Amendment, the 7-year deadline had passed, and Congress has never righted that wrong. In fact, 14 states still have not ratified it and I’m sure you know what party controls those states.
The old white guys won again. Women were still not, in the eyes of the Constitution and legally plus functionally, equal to men.
1973 – Shortly after that. the same group of old white men had arranged for the Equal Rights Amendment to fail, the SCOTUS threw them a curve – they gave women the right to bodily autonomy by making abortion legal across the land.
2022 – Then in just 43 short years, after having stacked the deck and SCOTUS with right leaning justices, the old white guys (mainly from red states), having led a no holds war against a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, got what they wanted. The right-wing justices took that right away from them.
Seems to me the women (and all real men) in our nation should by now have gotten the message. Have you?
In conclusion, the midterms are coming up… think about the rights you have (men think about your mother, sister, daughter, spouse) been denied.
Stand up and be counted.
This error which would deny women the right to vote (and other things), was I think, simply a sign of the times… women were not equals in the eyes of society and in general, men. He simply hadn’t a thought of what that mistake might later mean.
1920 – It took 144 years for women to get the right to vote and only then after a long battle.
1972 – It took nearly 200 for the Equal Right Amendment (giving essentially, women the same right men had across the board) to pass Congress… again, after a long, long battle. However, the old white men in Congress snuck in a clause that would delay it becoming an Actual Amendment without most states ratifying it. They also put a 7-year time limit on those ratifications.
By the time enough states ratified the Amendment, the 7-year deadline had passed, and Congress has never righted that wrong. In fact, 14 states still have not ratified it and I’m sure you know what party controls those states.
The old white guys won again. Women were still not, in the eyes of the Constitution and legally plus functionally, equal to men.
1973 – Shortly after that. the same group of old white men had arranged for the Equal Rights Amendment to fail, the SCOTUS threw them a curve – they gave women the right to bodily autonomy by making abortion legal across the land.
2022 – Then in just 43 short years, after having stacked the deck and SCOTUS with right leaning justices, the old white guys (mainly from red states), having led a no holds war against a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, got what they wanted. The right-wing justices took that right away from them.
Seems to me the women (and all real men) in our nation should by now have gotten the message. Have you?
In conclusion, the midterms are coming up… think about the rights you have (men think about your mother, sister, daughter, spouse) been denied.
Stand up and be counted.
