How many husbands control the votes of their wives? We'll never know

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2018-11-21 08:46

Article here. Excerpt:

'Progressive organizer Annabel Park told the story that made me start to wonder. “I can’t stop thinking about this woman I met while doorknocking for Beto in Dallas,” Annabel wrote on social media a few days before the midterm elections.

“She lived in a sprawling low-income apartment complex. After I knocked a couple of times, she answered the door with her husband just behind her. She looked petrified and her husband looked menacing behind her. When I made my pitch about Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, her husband yelled, ‘We’re not interested.’ She looked at me and silently mouthed, ‘I support Beto.’ Before I could respond, she quickly closed the door.”

Annabel told me afterwards, “It’s been on my mind. Did she get beaten? That was my fear.”

There’s a form of voter intimidation that widespread and unacknowledged. It’s the husbands who bully and silence and control their wives, as witnessed by dozens of door-to-door canvassers across the country I heard from.'

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... some people didn't actually believe this stuff.

Imagine the scenario described. Does it fit neatly into some kind of stereotype of lower-income men in tank top t-shirts hanging out in the trailer-park whacking around their closet Democrat old ladies? It does? Then dang it's just too durned good.

The degree to which some uncritically swallow hook line and sinker the tales of others is astounding.

Critical thinking is no longer taught as a topic in colleges. This is bc crit. thought is the enemy of politicians. Politicians lie. It is a req't of the job. But lies typically reveal themselves, even believable ones. Really good lies require you to apply crit. thinking to detect.

This kind of thing that is described herein is patently absurd. First, blue candidates like Beto tend to be populists, at least on the surface, and usually champion things like increasing public assistance and so on. People in lower income brackets are thus a lot more likely to support blue/prog candidates like Beto vs. more conservative candidates who tend to champion less in the way of pub. assistance and more in the way of jobs training.

Second, only one person is allowed in a voting booth at a time. Even if an evil bad husband is on his wife about voting red, nothing is keeping her from voting blue when she steps into the booth.

The Clinton explanation for her 2016 loss as being attributable to swarms of evil GOP men brain-washing their wives into voting red is beyond credibility. And yet it seems some ppl are actually running with that ball.

The way you keep such evil men from exerting Svengali-like control over their wives is to stop wifehood from happening. Ban marriage and nullify all marriages and further outlaw cohabitation.

That'll fix any possible such problems.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2018-11-22 04:01

Nobody believes anything published in the Guardian outside the tiny altra-left elitists who live in that soap bubble.
How plausible is it that these husbands are watching over their wives, just to intimidate them when these door-knockers happen to come along.
It doesn't even pass the good fiction test! We all know that these men are sitting in their sweat stained recliners sucking beer, watching patriarchy porn and are way too fat and lazy to come to the door!
Feeble minded fictions for the feeble minded.

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Submitted by rabel111 on Thu, 2018-11-22 04:48