"I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated," Ukraine correspondent Lizzie Johnson wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
If it makes you feel any better, the US hasn’t been a democracy for most of it’s history. Women didn’t officially have the right to a bank account or line of credit without a male co-signer until 1974, and even after that, there were many cases of banks refusing to do so. That’s half the population of the country denied financial agency. I have no doubt that it affected the ability to vote independently.
Granted that most other countries weren’t any better during the same time period. My point is that the US was never the champion of democracy. It might have at best just been part of the leading edge at one point.
If it makes you feel any better, the US hasn’t been a democracy for most of it’s history. Women didn’t officially have the right to a bank account or line of credit without a male co-signer until 1974, and even after that, there were many cases of banks refusing to do so. That’s half the population of the country denied financial agency. I have no doubt that it affected the ability to vote independently.
Granted that most other countries weren’t any better during the same time period. My point is that the US was never the champion of democracy. It might have at best just been part of the leading edge at one point.
True.