'The 19th Amendment was a bad idea': The far-right's wish list for extreme voter suppression

[RandySF]

President Donald Trump and the GOP are attacking voting rights through executive orders to roll back mail-in voting and the SAVE America Act, which would impose strict ID requirements.

But to some far-right Christian influencers, that’s small potatoes.

They’re pushing for even harsher voting restrictions. Among them: revoking women’s right to vote, instituting “family voting,” and only allowing property owners the right to vote.

These ideas haven’t made it into legislation — yet. But they’re growing in popularity among far-right Christian nationalists, many of whom are motivated by a belief that women should have no role at all in public affairs.



https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the-19th-amendment-was-a-bad-idea-the-far-rights-wish-list-for-extreme-voter-suppression/

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. As someone who votes by mail in a blue state (Illinois) for health reasons...

these bastards can go straight to hell.

[Deuxcents]

2. I they'd have to have Congress repeal the 19th Amendment which was fought for since 1848 and we wont let it go

[Laurelin]

3. Pretty sure we said we wouldn't let abortion go

I have no clue anymore.

[Deuxcents]

4. Yes, it definitely got a real kick in the teeth so we gotta be extra dedicated since we know what it means to lose

I’m sure the tactics will be different because lessons learned to not let it happen again.gotta be smarter and fight harder..too precious not to.

[GenThePerservering]

8. Abortion rights were nor legislated into

The constitution, though.

[niyad]

5. When I was pointing out decades ago that the misogynist, theocratic,

whack jobs wanted to repeal 19A, (because I paid attention to what they were saying) I was told, repeatedly, that this was just a few crazies, that nobody would take them seriously, that such a thing could never happen.

And yet, now we have elected officials openly saying this. And people criticized me fot saying I feared the religious nutjobs in this country more than those in other countries. Turns out even I was overly optimistic.

[Scrivener7]

10. Whenever people say, "Just a few crazies," you KNOW it's an idea that will catch on like wildfire with the far right.

[Mister Ed]

6. And it wouldn't end there.

What would eventually become of women in the U.S. once they could no longer vote?

Look to the places in the world and the points in history where women have been most cruelly suppressed. There is no bottom...

[EuterpeThelo]

7. Yep

Margaret Atwood said she drew on real events/circumstances for The Handmaid's Tale - that everything she wrote had actually happened somewhere in the world in history. We need to stop thinking "it can't happen here." It already is.

[GenThePerservering]

9. Every single country that has disenfranchised

women has gone into the dust.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. "Christian Nationalists" are NOT Christian.

They pretend to be Christian. They pretend to be tough.

Were these people to achieve their dream, good luck in making it on 1 income and NOT allowing women ANY rights. I do not have to draw a picture. But those with a brain KNOW what I am talking about.

[GenThePerservering]

12. Men and Owned Women have been whining

about women voting for decades. Somehow I don't think they'll be able to stuff that genie back into the bottle.