Welp, since the last post on the subject got deleted I'll say it again.
The West was great long before women's suffrage, from 1760 onwards really. That the greatness managed to limp along for the last century before crumbling is agnostic or in spite of women voting.
Gotta love the myopia that if you start to doubt the propaganda about girlbosses you've suddenly converted to Islam. You can still hate their pedo-praising cousin-lovin goatfucker culture even if you stop fetishizing women.
That's the problem with appealing to conservatism in only the most literal sense, why should we conserve feminism in it's current metastasized state as a tradition? Just because it currently exists? Why is that seen as a loss rather than preserving the traditions of the 19th century that saw the west on a meteoric rise instead of a slow disintegration?
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.
Welp, since the last post on the subject got deleted I'll say it again.
The West was great long before women's suffrage, from 1760 onwards really. That the greatness managed to limp along for the last century before crumbling is agnostic or in spite of women voting.
Gotta love the myopia that if you start to doubt the propaganda about girlbosses you've suddenly converted to Islam. You can still hate their pedo-praising cousin-lovin goatfucker culture even if you stop fetishizing women.
That's the problem with appealing to conservatism in only the most literal sense, why should we conserve feminism in it's current metastasized state as a tradition? Just because it currently exists? Why is that seen as a loss rather than preserving the traditions of the 19th century that saw the west on a meteoric rise instead of a slow disintegration?
Do you think politicians do what their voters wants them to do?
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.