Women's suffrage was apparently bad for the US.

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A controversial clergyman and Fox News contributor has raised eyebrows and ire by delivering a recorded sermon in which he posited that women's suffrage was "one of the greatest mistakes" in American history and that women were "crazy."

Despite his shockingly misogynistic comments, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson was still invited to appear on Sean Hannity's popular Fox News program.

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"I think one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote," the reverend continued. "We should have never turned this over to women. And these women are voting for the wrong people. They're voting in people who are evil who agree with them who are gonna take us down the pathway of destruction."

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Hannity, who denies that there is a conservative "war on women," welcomed Rev. Peterson on his show even after his incredible display of disdain for the opposite sex. But Fox host Kirsten Powers, who sat alongside Peterson during Hannity's "Great American Panel" segment which aired on May 1, called the clergyman out for his sermon.
http://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-contributor-says-letting-women-vote-one-162600782.html

And here's the actually segment in its entirety:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLyy73HJwbM

So, you say women are raving lunatics and allowing them to vote is destroying the country and you get on a popular, nation wide "news" program. Sounds reasonable.:Shrug:
 

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That is scary. I'm gonna echo someone in another thread and say: wtf is going on in your country?
 

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If you listen to the rest of his speech it gets even more vile.
 

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The crazies are running scared, which makes them more crazy, vile and desperate.

This, and also... I think our national identity is collapsing, due to globalism and the economy sucking - the American dream is getting harder and harder to believe in, and it's a narrative that we really, really want to believe in.

We look for someone to blame, and the other political party is the easiest one, and when that political party is associated with gender, race, religion, class, region, etc. - well, hatred and violence resulteth, in one way or another. I think it may be inevitable, as well as being really fucking scary.
 

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and this January he opined that African-Americans should be sent "back on the plantation so they would understand the ethic of working."

"They need a good, hard education on what it is to work," he said.

O_O
 

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Where do you get these guys from? Is there a time tunnel under the Republican party heaquarters leading to the stone age?

Universal suffrage was one of the greatest political changes in history and one that has created the most good IMO. I am personally of the opinion that we also need to lower the voting age as a way of engaging more young people with the process.
 

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This, and also... I think our national identity is collapsing, due to globalism and the economy sucking the gummyment - the American dream is getting harder and harder to believe in, and it's a narrative that we really, really want to believe in.

I did this for no reason other than I have a sneaking suspicion it's true (though this is more based off an equally dear, equally non-factual narrative as the "American dream", so take that with a grain of salt.

And because it gave me an excuse to use the word gummyment.

Durn gummyment. Stickin 'er nose in our buisness. Took urr jorrrrrrbs.

Seriously, though, this guy is a nutcase. I'd love to give him what he wants: A community where women are treated as second class citizens. Suddenly, crime will go up, drunken disorderly will go up, poverty will go up...

10 days in 1904 would clear up a lot of these delusions. No, better yet, 1404.
 

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Seriously, though, this guy is a nutcase. I'd love to give him what he wants: A community where women are treated as second class citizens. Suddenly, crime will go up, drunken disorderly will go up, poverty will go up...

Are you insinuating that large and rowdy groups of women would spontaneously rise up across the nation and go on drunken crime sprees if they were to be deprived of the vote? Spending all of the household's money on debauchery and cooking dinner for no man? If so, please add me to the notification list. I'm in.
 

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Yup. No war on women here. Democrats and liberals and socialists made it all up.


:Headbang:

Seriously, I sometimes wonder if they're just contemptible in their thinking or contemptuous of the thinking of their audience.
 

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Are you insinuating that large and rowdy groups of women would spontaneously rise up across the nation and go on drunken crime sprees if they were to be deprived of the vote? Spending all of the household's money on debauchery and cooking dinner for no man? If so, please add me to the notification list. I'm in.


+1
 

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Conservatives have been trying to undo the social reforms of the twentieth century for decades. This is just pushing the calendar back.

They've done a good number on Johnson's Great Society. Recently they've been ranting against and trying to undo Roosevelt's New Deal. This is just the logical progression.

Next would be dismantling Teddy Roosevelt's FDA. Who needs safety from tainted food anyway?
 

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Wow. I'm flabbergasted. WTF? Where does America come up with these assholes? How does someone, someone who's supposed to be educated and living in the 21st century, come up with this shit? How does it even cross their minds?
 

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*in best Professor Farnsworth voice* I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
 

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Ha! That's fantastic. I must be in a weird mood, because the very Reverend quite made me laugh. Bring on the kooks. We need to air them out.
 
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How dare we women vote in the wrong people.

Pure evil, it is. Crazy evil.

In fact, my very vagina has made me so crazy evil I'm tempted to say some very bad things about a Reverend.
 

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Were there always this many nutters around only now the Interwebz has made them visible or are they increasing in number?
 

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Were there always this many nutters around only now the Interwebz has made them visible or are they increasing in number?

No the internet hasn't made them visible. The media has. Fox News gave him a platform to air his views, the newspapers are running with it.
 

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Where does America come up with these assholes?

I'm so glad you asked! There's a factory outside of Durham, NC, also owned by Murdoch. Alas, there are no public tours.

How does it even cross their minds?

They look in a downwards direction and the urinal, I would imagine, feel shame and anger, and project it out into the world.

How does someone, someone who's supposed to be educated and living in the 21st century, come up with this shit?

Whoa, dude. Some major false assumptions there! They are not educated in any meaningful sense of the word and they live in an imaginary version of the early 19th century. Or, they are cleverly marketing to a niche, and it pays them well. It does not have anything to do, necessarily, with what they actually think. (see also, conservative anti-gay congressmen who have BDSM sex with teen boy prostitutes.)
 

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Whoa, dude. Some major false assumptions there! They are not educated in any meaningful sense of the word and they live in an imaginary version of the early 19th century. Or, they are cleverly marketing to a niche, and it pays them well. It does not have anything to do, necessarily, with what they actually think. (see also, conservative anti-gay congressmen who have BDSM sex with teen boy prostitutes.)

I know this. I do. I just don't understand it.