Today is the anniversary of the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in the United States. I am stunned and reminded that it took so long to grant this right to women. My mother was born in 1906 and by 1920 she was a teenager. I wonder what her thoughts were when this landmark event occurred? Or did she even hear about it? Thankfully as an adult she did have the right to express her opinion at the polls. All this makes me wonder about the blind spots in our nation today where we perpetrated injustice against certain groups. In the turmoil of today's corrupt attempts to manipulated the electoral process I sense that we as nation may succumb to the kind of thinking that potentially could have denied my mother the right to vote!
In our last presidential election we suffered the inane claims of voter fraud by election results deniers. Today we are still dealing with fraudulent claims of misdeeds. Worse than that we see an orchestrated effort by one party to take over the mechanisms to verify the vote by electing officials they can control. I feel that I am in peril of losing my country to fascist factions that will negate the will of the people. I hope I am wrong. I pray that the precious right that my mother was able to exercise in her lifetime will not be abrogated by a minority faction.
