(10-13-2016, 07:45 PM)Einzige Wrote: Some Trump supporters want to repeal the 19the Amendment to the Constitution - the one that gave women the right to vote.
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37639738
Quote:Calls for women to be denied their right to vote have trended on Twitter as polls suggested Donald Trump would win if only men could cast ballots in next month's White House election.
The Republican nominee's supporters were accused of tweeting #repealthe19th - a reference to the US constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage less than 100 years ago.
The hashtag went viral after polls suggested Mr Trump would win election if only men cast ballots.
Mr Trump has struggled to win over female voters, especially since a recent tape emerged of his sexually aggressive boasts.
The hashtag began trending after FiveThirtyEight, a political number-crunching blog, tweeted two polls which showed what the outcome of the presidential election would be if only women voted, and if only men voted.
He found that if the election only counted the female vote, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would win the presidency with 458 electoral votes and Mr Trump a meagre 80.
If only men voted in the presidential election, Mr Trump would win the election with 350 electoral votes and Mrs Clinton only 188.
A candidate must win 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
Some of the tweets calling for a woman's right to vote to be repealed seemed in earnest.
It is telling that after liberating France, Italy, and Japan, the British and Americans insisted upon women getting the vote. Fascism is very much a 'bad boys' club. Subordination of women is commonplace in fascist causes (including Nazism, the KKK, and ISIS) in part because women are not as reckless in their support of ultra-nationalist and racist causes as men. Giving women the vote might ensure that democracies would never have to fight fascism in Europe again.
Men are more likely to see war and militarism as adventure and opportunity. Women are more likely to see it war and militarism as devourers of sons, brothers, boyfriends, and grandsons; at best, war is a means for saving a nation from subjection.
Of course, Donald Trump shows some of the warning signs of fascism (avid militarism, contempt for human rights, scapegoating of minorities, anti-intellectualism, exaltation of economic elites, desire to suppress the power of organized labor, obsession with national security, exaggerated fear of crime...)
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.