Reply #26: So were..... [View All]

[loyalsister]

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott..... all of the early women suffragists. The first women's movement was brought about by Republicans and was tied to the abolition movement. How they all must be tossing and turning in their graves!!!!
We all would have been proud Republicans in those days. We may not have been able to afford to be a part of the movements. The Republican activists were blue bloods. It was a sort of "fashionable" hobby to spend liesure time on politics. "Wayward" kids with inheiretances would occupy themselves with politics rather than picking up careers sometimes because they could do it on their own time and they got to travel a lot. There was a connection to Europe in early activism. The Republicans held onto their blue blood base that wasn't particularly attentive to politics when they courted the racists, as well as those who weren't particularly interested in having "those people" as a base.
Some women were no longer interested in women's issues, because once their own colleges were established they had leverage for intimidation. They were women who were interested in status in the form of a dpiploma and would simply demean some men with their language skills now and then to feel powerful. They could use connections to marry a man with plenty of money and spend time on "charity work" or something and felt like they had plenty of power. Many of the "blue blood" women of the 60s continued to limit their interest to connections and money as opposed to opportunity. They aren't interested in what is good for all women. Thus you have the Barbara Bushes and Ann Coulters of today.
Thus blue bloods stayed with the Republicans while the Rupulicans found that they could win by courting racists and chuavenists without losing the blue bloods by offering them money.
And, this is why our base is largely women, minorities, and the white men who have enough of a sense of fairness to sympathize with all of us.