The more political ground it loses, the more the Democratic Party retreats into its ideological stronghold in the drugs-corrupted 1960s. Posters of Che were seen everywhere on college dorm walls back then. Too bad that this leftist hero couldn’t be brought back to assess how Cuba has fared since its revolution.
The Equal Rights Amendment was just another failed 1960s-vintage initiative that fit the rules-for-radicals playbook of the Democratic Party: work fast while the entertainment-doped voting mobs don’t realize what’s really going on–and while their political sense of an issue is caught up in shallow political emotions. Team up with the mainstream media to orchestrate passage of a new amendment to the Constitution based on Identity Politics. Even so-called “conservatives” in both parties jumped on the hot-issue bandwagon.
It didn’t take long before cooler heads gained insight and commonsense. It turned out that equal rights was already guaranteed in the original Constitution and Bill of Rights. We didn’t need one amendment after another based on impulsively-conceived sentiments.
One article in yesterday’s American Thinker, “Will Ruth Bader Ginsburg kill the Equal Rights Amendment?” reveals the Supreme Court Justice’s allegiance both to radical feminism as well as to Constitutional law itself: “Since being taken over by new-era Democrats, Virginia has continued its hard tilt to the left by voting to ratify the ERA this past January. It takes 38 states to ratify an amendment before it is incorporated into the Constitution, and Virginia makes the 38th.”
But “not so fast” says the article, “Virginia, as well as several other states, have ratified the ERA decades after the time limit set by Congress for its national passage lapsed.” And five other states–Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Tennessee–have since revoked their earlier revocations.
The deadline for the ERA’s passage was on March 31, 1979, however, though “Not to be deterred by such a technicality, Nancy Pelosi’s House now has a plan to retroactively extend the deadline to complete the ratification process. This is the same-old, same-old leftist tactic Democrats use of moving the goalposts when losing.” Virginia’s bogus 38th vote would sneakily be made to count.
The good news for all of us is that on December 18, 2019, South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg joined with two other states, Alabama and Louisiana, to file a lawsuit to prevent Pelosi from pushing the bogus ERA amendment through.
As Ravnsborg and the suit argues: “It is the duty of the Attorney General to defend and support our Legislature. It would be a disservice to the citizens of South Dakota to ignore this obligation of my office….This is an issue of following the rule of law, the rules that our founding fathers put into place to protect us from government making decisions without the consent or support of ‘we the people.’”
Ginsburg agrees with Ravnsborg on legal grounds: “An amendment to the Constitution should not be done by procedural nuances decades after the deadline prescribed by Congress, but through an open and transparent process where each State knows the ramifications of its actions.”
She might like “to see a new beginning” and “start over” again, but, alas, the ERA is now a lost cause. The country has moved on. The rule of law still has standing for her.
Americans know that Donald Trump supports already-existing Constitutional applications of equal rights and opportunities, just not the corrupted 1960s version.
