"It seems like some wimmin keep clammering for the vote...

[Tom Rinaldo]

...but there's no chance in hell that an all male congress and all male state legislatures will ever approve a constitutional amendment to give it to them. Why don't they do something more realistic, like stand behind men who are sympathetic to their issues? That way they could actually accomplish something instead of just screaming slogans".

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1. That line of "reasoning" sounds awfully familiar.

Ahh HA! Single Payer, Universal Health Care. Only now it is the Conservatives of all stripes vs the Liberals.

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. Yep

I can almost hear some of them 175 years ago proposing a pragmatic "market based" solution to slavery. Freedom was unrealistic. Slaves should have bent over backwards to work especially hard for Masters who treated them with a small degree of decency - thus on those plantations productivity would have risen over the yield for plantations with harsh masters - creating a market incentive for slaves to be treated well. Eventually plantation owners would have realized that allowing them to become share croppers rather than slaves would also be in their economic self interests. Voila, incremental progress!