The ERA should have been passed long ago.
There is absolutely, positively NO WAY that same sex marriage will be de-legalized, so Cruz and Rubio are on the wrong side of that issue.
Oh? So the desires of the people make no difference at all? Justice that no one thinks is right, isn't.
Women getting the vote did, in fact, change the tone and character of American politics forever. Any change of this sort will produce results that at east some people will see as bad.
So you agree with one of the ideas in the article? I can see that as reasonable , though the results being more good than bad is still a disagreement. I would not want to reverse female suffrage ,I like most of the results too.
Prohibition was supposed to change American life, and it surely did, and its being rescinded produced even more changes. Brewery-owned saloons were made a thing of the past by Prohibition, and they never returned. Saloons in fact sis not return, either. Now bars in the US are unisex, not exclusively ,male (with the occasional prostitute).
The NPR documentary series on Prohibition revealed several things that i did not know. One was that among the most fervent supporters of Prohibition were the Ku Klux Klan. I guess they were opposed to drunken race riots, preferring the sober ones.
This is news to me. But not surprising.
A lot of Klan philosophy is based on an overemphasis on certain scriptures , which is a technique for using the letter of the law to reverse the sprit of the law.
So a Klansman might think himself a serious Christian while involved in activities that Christ would never sanction.
There have been Klan members who made this realization and left the club, mostly when some really nasty incident made the membership ashamed of itself.
The Klan in Indiana is about the best example of this I know about .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Klan Conditions in Indiana were ripe for Klan recruitment the Klan inspired heroic feelings and grew like a snowball rolling downhill, in less than two decades they went from nothing to practical control of everything.
A shameful incident cost them all of their upstanding membership and converted connection to them from a political asset to a political liability , the failure of the clan was like an avalanche.
As far as I know they have not recovered significantly in that state even yet .
