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RandySF

(59,484 posts)
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 11:57 PM Mar 6

NC-GOV: 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn't Vote'

On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.

But just four years ago, Robinson invoked a bizarre hypothetical in which he said he’d “absolutely” like to return to the days when the 19th Amendment didn’t exist ― when women didn’t have the right to vote.

“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by the Republican Women of Pitt County.

During this event, Robinson, who was running for lieutenant governor at the time, recalled someone recently asking conservative activist Candace Owens to pick which version of America would make America “great again,” one where “Black people were swinging from cheap trees” or one where women weren’t allowed to vote.

Robinson said he would definitely return to the days in America when women were denied the right to vote “because in those days we had people who fought for real social change, and they were called Republicans.”



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-women-vote_n_65e7d899e4b0f9d26cacc002

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NC-GOV: 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn't Vote' (Original Post) RandySF Mar 6 OP
that oughta make the repub women swoon nt msongs Mar 7 #1
Indeed. MontanaMama Mar 7 #2
It might with some of them IronLionZion Mar 7 #6
I'd like to go back before he was born UTUSN Mar 7 #3
But not quite so far that a black man has no rights. bullimiami Mar 7 #4
Actually atreides1 Mar 8 #18
Another rotten MAGA shithead. Fuck this stupid, woman-hating fuckstain. Dumb motherfucker is barely literate. SoFlaBro Mar 7 #5
pig samnsara Mar 7 #7
A lot of his supporters would like to return to an america before the 13th amendment. Renew Deal Mar 7 #8
Do these repigs really want to run on this kind of messaging? Women already outnumber male voters nationwide. Texin Mar 7 #9
Ironically enough, there's a kernel of truth in that. cab67 Mar 7 #10
I hope his opponent and the DNC are going to roll out numerous commercials, bulletin boards and web ads kimbutgar Mar 7 #11
This is exactly where the fascist Repuke party has ALWAYS been headed... AZ8theist Mar 7 #12
And I'm sure.... SergeStorms Mar 7 #13
Voting is like driving....... AZ8theist Mar 7 #16
😂 SergeStorms Mar 8 #19
I DID!!! .....well....not really... AZ8theist Mar 8 #20
North Carolina, please do the right thing and flush this turd in November! Initech Mar 7 #14
How can somebody like that have a chance of getting elected? This country is doomed, the idiots are taking over. OverBurn Mar 7 #15
I vote to send him. Where's that Tesla with the nutty professor & Mike Fox? Wonder Why Mar 7 #17

IronLionZion

(45,580 posts)
6. It might with some of them
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 11:13 AM
Mar 7

There's a stupid Youtuber who repeatedly claims America would be more conservative if women couldn't vote. She's a woman and claims women make bad decisions and life was easier before feminists decided women have to work.

atreides1

(16,100 posts)
18. Actually
Fri Mar 8, 2024, 08:53 AM
Mar 8

The 19th Amendment was passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified by the Senate in 1920...and black men, women, and children had no rights!

This was the vote in the Senate

20 Democrats Yea
17 Democrats Nay
9 Democrats Not voting/abstained
36 Republicans Yea
8 Republicans Nay
5 Republicans Not voting/abstained

And someone should point out that it was Southern Democrats who opposed giving women the right to vote...and we all know that those Southern Democrats, are the ancestors of Southern Republicans!

SoFlaBro

(1,986 posts)
5. Another rotten MAGA shithead. Fuck this stupid, woman-hating fuckstain. Dumb motherfucker is barely literate.
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 12:24 AM
Mar 7

Texin

(2,600 posts)
9. Do these repigs really want to run on this kind of messaging? Women already outnumber male voters nationwide.
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 11:40 AM
Mar 7

This is the kind of rhetoric that may make cavemen feel good, but it's going to enrage women and drive a big turnout, likely greater than they've ever seen. And this is fucking NORTH CAROLINA. It's one of the most educated states in the nation. What the hell? All he needs to say on top of this is that he wants to take away all the women's shoes and hand them a damn broom.

cab67

(3,010 posts)
10. Ironically enough, there's a kernel of truth in that.
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 12:39 PM
Mar 7

Many of those who fought for voting rights prior to the First World War were indeed Republicans. This was, of course, in the days when the Democrats were dominated by the Southern arm that was focused on maintaining Jim Crow. Woodrow Wilson was perhaps the most racist president of the 20th century - and given some of the other luminaries filling that role before 2000 (*cough* Reagan *cough*), that's saying something.

The real irony is that the current Republican Party wants to move back to these days not to rejoin the fight for social justice, but to bring back the reasons it had to be fought in the first place. They've adopted the mantle not of the progressive-minded Republicans of the prewar era, but of their Dixiecrat opponents.

I'm reminded of the scene in Clockwork Orange, where Alex, upon reading the Bible as a sign of personal improvement, is shown imagining himself not as Jesus Christ, but as one of the Roman guards whipping him.

Added on edit to clarify - I am not, in any way, defending the NC-GOV candidate, nor am I defending the modern Republican Party in any way. I'm just pointing out that the broader scope of history allows modern charlatans to make rhetorical points, especially if historical facts are stripped of their context.

kimbutgar

(21,229 posts)
11. I hope his opponent and the DNC are going to roll out numerous commercials, bulletin boards and web ads
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 01:44 PM
Mar 7

Highlighting his views about women!

That POS needs to be destroyed.

AZ8theist

(5,519 posts)
12. This is exactly where the fascist Repuke party has ALWAYS been headed...
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 02:24 PM
Mar 7

Outlaw abortion.
Outlaw contraception.
Outlaw women voting.

This wasn't hard to predict.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
13. And I'm sure....
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 05:05 PM
Mar 7

the majority would rather have emancipation outlawed as well.

They certainly are a backward looking bunch, aren't they.

AZ8theist

(5,519 posts)
16. Voting is like driving.......
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 06:40 PM
Mar 7

Select "R" you go backwards.
Select "D" you move forward.

It's not rocket surgery.....

Initech

(100,114 posts)
14. North Carolina, please do the right thing and flush this turd in November!
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 05:14 PM
Mar 7

Fuck Mark Robinson and the people who voted for this scumbag!

OverBurn

(963 posts)
15. How can somebody like that have a chance of getting elected? This country is doomed, the idiots are taking over.
Thu Mar 7, 2024, 05:22 PM
Mar 7
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