What's that? You thought lunacy was gone for good? Well, I guess you haven't heard about Abby Johnson, who spoke the other night at a gathering of people who support the candidacy of a bankrupt real estate King of Queens.
Abby is all in favor of "household voting," which sounds innocuous enough. Sure, everyone of legal age who has no felonies on their record should vote, right? But to her mind, that means being for a head-of-household voting system.
"OK Dad, you vote and that will count for all of us!" said no one ever.
Household voting means that women and people of color can just not even think about casting ballots.
“I would support bringing back household voting,” Johnson tweeted in May. “How anti-feminist of me.”
This month, we non-lunatics celebrate the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment, which gave voting rights to women.
Of course, to our shame, only certain women, I know. But before the 19th Amendment, and the 15th, which stopped states from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote based on race, it was only, for the most part, white men who were allowed to vote. White men who owned property and were of the right religion, in some cases, I should add.
There were states that gave the vote to Black men, and to white guys who did not own property, but it was not universal.
Johnson's bizarre head-of-household voting scheme would give the right to vote only to the head of a household. And you can bet your sweet bippy she doesn't see females ever filling that role. She wants the male to be the de facto decision maker.
Someone asked her on Twitter, "But what happens when the husband is a Republican and the wife is a Democrat or vice versa?”
“Then they would have to decide on one vote. In a Godly household, the husband would get the final say,” she replied.
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Looking into Ms Johnson's history, we see that she worked at Planned Parenthood for eight years, and then quit that job to become an anti-abortion activist. She is the founder of And Then There Were None, an organization that "supports the career transitions of individuals working in facilities that perform abortions."
Everyone has an opinion about abortion, and I don't even want to discuss it here, but I didn't dream until this week that a movement to limit voting to the men who "are in charge of their households" was even a thing. I would say that most of the men I know who are married to women are married to women smarter than themselves. Also, it would be hard to find other people dumber than most men, so there's that.
They made a movie about Abby Johnson last year, but, apparently, we don't get that channel.
Two years ago, a woman in Utah wrote on Facebook: “The more I study history the more I think giving voting rights to others not head of household has been a grave mistake!”
If I could have a moment with that woman, I would like her to know that I feel she might want to go back and study history a little bit more. I'm sure that would be all right with her husband.
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