John Connor: You just can’t go around killing people.
The Terminator: Why?
John Connor: What do you mean why? ‘Cause you can’t.
The Terminator: Why?
According to every other self-appointed ‘onservative pundit, the GOP can only win if it stops talking about all that crazy gay marriage/abortion/illegal immigration stuff and accepts that fact that America is diverse and evolving and so forth.
We have to “accept” XYZ cultural calamity is the hip new orthodoxy all the kids are crazy about (it has a good beat and you can dance to it!) and just grow up and move on and yadda.
Here’s what makes all that crap just so damn fascinating:
The E.R.A. was supported by Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter, and actively lobbied for by the First Ladies Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter. The A.F.L.-C.I.O., the League of Women Voters, and the National Education Association backed it; women’s magazines ranging from Redbook and Good Housekeeping to Cosmopolitan ran scores of positive articles on it, and its many celebrity champions included Patty Duke, Ann Landers, Erma Bombeck, Marlo Thomas, and Carol Burnett…
Meanwhile, sitting in her living room in suburban St. Louis, Phyllis Schlafly had decided that the E.R.A. was a bad idea. (…)
She launched her crusade, STOP ERA, in the fall of 1972, and by the following spring the amendment had won thirty of the necessary thirty-eight state ratifications. Schlafly had no real organization to speak of, just a monthly newsletter that she mailed to a few thousand supporters…
First the ratification process for the E.R.A. slowed, then it stalled out entirely. The last state to approve the amendment was Indiana, in January, 1977. Meanwhile, five states that had already voted to ratify rescinded their approval…
Oh, and by the way…
So “young people today” don’t like this or that? Young people today are idiots and always have been. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Conservatives have to make the right the new center, and stop veering left.
