Donald Trump’s supporters recently started the hashtag, #repealthe19th referring to the 19th amendment to the United State’s constitution, the amendment which gave women the right to vote.This came after a poll showed that if only men voted in the 2016 presidential election, Trump would defeat Clinton in a landslide.
Sometimes I wake up and I feel like I’m living inside an episode of the Twilight Zone. Events such as #repealthe19th only serve to further bolster that feeling. Even as a joke, which I am going to give it the benefit of the doubt of being, it is disgusting. To joke about women’s suffrage, a right that women, and many men, before us fought for is more unpatriotic than anything I’ve seen in quite some time. This group wants to “Make America Great Again”, and apparently that means going back in time, to a time when only white wealthy men had any rights in this country.
#repealthe19th is not a joke--there’s nothing funny about it. It sets a terrible example for girls everywhere, who are being told that it’s okay to imagine going back to a time when they were viewed as lesser than their male counterparts. For the sake of what remains of this country’s dignity, nonsense like this needs to be put to rest. The only way I see to do that is to turn out at the polls.
