And the fire hoses of Birmingham. National Review’s John Derbyshire thinks women should lose the right to vote and civil rights laws should be overturned. Saying America would “probably” be better, Derbyshire declared:
“The conservative case against it is that women lean hard to the left,” Derbyshire responded nonsensically. “They want someone to nurture, they want someone to help raise their kids, and if men aren’t inclined to do it — and in the present days, they’re not much — then they’d like the state to do it for them.”[...]Later in the interview, Derbyshire said there’s also a case to be made for repealing the 1964 Civil Rights Act because you “shouldn’t try to force people to be good.”
Culture Warriors do have some strange ideas. What logically follows a repeal of the 19th Amendment is that Michelle Malkin would shut up, Michelle Bachmann would go home to her umpteen foster kids, and Sarah Palin could not run in 2012. As wonderful as that might be, I won’t trade them for Nancy Pelosi, flawed as she might be.
Derbyshire’s reasoning — that women should depend on men instead of the government — is an impressive male chauvinism that one would think entirely dead in America. It’s beyond “paleo-conservative.” Hell, this is Coelocanth Conservatism.
