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Women's suffrage is generally acknowledged to have resulted in the passage of Prohibition, and Prohibition is generally acknowledged to be a mistake. Why could
by jdminhbg 18y ago
Women's suffrage is generally acknowledged to have resulted in the passage of Prohibition, and Prohibition is generally acknowledged to be a mistake. Why couldn't other mistakes have their roots in suffrage?
That doesn't mean that suffrage was itself a mistake or should be repealed, just that there could be bad effects as well as good. I'm generally libertarian, and regard the extension of the welfare state as bad, but I'd regard the political inequality of half the populace as far worse.
- jfarmer 18y agoThe contrapositive of his statement is: IF you believe in capitalist democracy THEN you cannot have universal suffrage. Since he believes in capitalist democracy, presumably he also believes you cannot have universal suffrage. Actually, he's more explicit than that. He doesn't believe you can have democracy at all if you're a capitalist: "I no longer believe that freedom [read: capitalism] and democracy are compatible." So, sounds like that's exactly what he's saying.