I mean suffrage is more than just voting rights, it's also a proxy for allowing them greater access to the national levers of power, like being judges and senators.
But besides that, I think if you have a democracy and suddenly half the population start voting for cowards and liars because they match their sensibilities better, then that democracy becomes a lot more likely to fall to irreparable corruption.
You make it sound like there was some huge switch that happened. Shortly before the 19th the US was implementing such stellar policies as creating the federal reserve and senselessly jumping into WWI.
I mean suffrage is more than just voting rights, it's also a proxy for allowing them greater access to the national levers of power, like being judges and senators.
But besides that, I think if you have a democracy and suddenly half the population start voting for cowards and liars because they match their sensibilities better, then that democracy becomes a lot more likely to fall to irreparable corruption.
You make it sound like there was some huge switch that happened. Shortly before the 19th the US was implementing such stellar policies as creating the federal reserve and senselessly jumping into WWI.
It was a huge switch. I'm not under the impression that we got here from just one wrong turn, but it definitely was one of them.