But only some, Fletch. Those who wanted to abolish slavery, including Jefferson and Washington, were outvoted. Some, like Hamilton wanted voting rights for only landowners, and certainly such rights for women was not even considered. Native Americans? The conquered to be contained.
Yes, I love my country deeply, and for the most part our laws and values and develeoped in a balanced way, after several disasterous laws and court decisions against women, blacks, native Americans, immigrants, religious groups etc etc. We've been sorting it out, bit by bit, and hopefully more civilized. Afraid, however, that we are jumping backward into intolerance with new laws restricting women's rights, special qualifications and Identity cards required to vote. New campaigns against same sex marriage, against the right to choose, to be able to come here to work and gain citizenship, to be productive and forward thinking members of a community. We are back to that old 20s and 30s KKK ranting and railing and about the dangers if any race or religion not accepted by the Daughters of the Revolution. Thus, the vicious and intolerable biased reporting and speechmaking by candidates and newscasters wanting to return to a theocracy of exclusion. This has become quite a rant, but the tone in this beautiful country has become frightening. Within one month--three mass killings!!!!! You can put it on the hate rhetoric by certain candidates, so called news commentators and so called news media.
