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Spin Zone / Re: Roger Ailes dead at 77 - Former Fox news chief
« on: May 20, 2017, 11:16:10 AM »What I think is more relevant is that women in general, throughout history, have not been the main breadwinners; men have. By biology or by culture, men's overriding concern has always been, can he support and protect his family? This leaves men much more knowledgeable and concerned about caring for a thriving economy, and with a greater innate understanding of the need to maintain access to physical resources and to project strength to potential enemies.
Women on the other hand have a better sense of empathy. I think it comes from the need to get inside the head of helpless infants, and it transfers to anyone. This isn't a bad thing at all. But it does leave them vulnerable to manipulation by those who would use social causes as a means to gain power. Because men tend to think more linearly, they seem better able to predict unintended consequences than women, who often are too focused on current suffering, and unable to look to the long run.
I'll bring up prohibition again as the perfect example. It was women who led the dry movement, because they saw real suffering caused by alcohol, but they completely miscalculated that the consequences of banning alcohol would be even worse. However, once those terrible consequences came to be, to their credit, it was again women who led the movement to repeal prohibition. Women had to see for themselves the suffering prohibition had caused before they "got it". It's just too bad the whole country had to be jerked back and forth in the process by these females, and we are still left with a bad template for dealing with substance abuse.
This all makes a lot of sense Rush. The unintended consequences, and the effects beyond looking at just the surface of issues, is an important consideration. Look at at LBJ's "Great Society", and "War on Poverty". It all sounds good on it surface, and while the purpose seemed benign, charitable, and altruistic, the results have been cruel, and destructive. The real purpose was power, and votes, and the poor were just used as fodder.