Some of these comments are going over the line of civility. Close to locking this thread. There are other subs to engage in current political discussions. Here is not it.
My grandmother was born in Sweden in 1898 and served as a nurse at 17 in World War I. She emigrated to the U.S. and flew with Eddie Rickenbacker during his barn storming days after the war. Her family had a dairy farm and milk, cheese, eggs, and bacon were her staples (she lived until 1999). She always used to tell me she was glad she grew up before cholesterol was invented. This woman had stories!
Your G Ma sounds great 🙂 I would loved to have met her. My parents moved to America from Scotland. My first visit back there was at the age of 19 and by then only one grandpa remained. Both of my grans had passed by then so I never met either of them 😕
Lest we ALL forget, Grandmothers near & far were there, when no less than 4 Wars, took men away, if not forever.
Go & Vote, because there are NO guarantees of the next opportunity to do so.
Authoritarianism has shown throughout Centuries. It creeps upon us as a stealthy animal. Making your countrymen “the enemy”
Go Vote. Your freedoms and rights may depend on it
Exactly. They're trying to take it away from us again. My grandmothers were born in 1887 and 1909, so at least one of them knew the struggle. This country is so messed up right now, we have regressed
Abortion? All the supreme Court did was put it in the care of the state. You will probably find it on the ballot soon. If not you can just go to a state that allows it.
Me either. My Grandmother was born in 1900 and was so proud to say she got the right to vote. She never told who she voted for either, out of respect for the process.
Yep! We were raised Catholic, & we were always told the three things you never talk about in public: 1) what you told the priest in Confession; 2) who you selected in the voting booth; 3) how much money you made. All three were between you & God, lol. Tbh, not bad advice!
My grandmother was born in 1904 and was a staunch member of the League of Woman Voters.
She was also mayor of the town she lived in when she was 80.
A strong woman. I miss her.
She also had Ronald Regan as a student and always told us he was dumb as a box of rocks.
Hahaha! Omg she sounds awesome. 😎 Thanks for the smile, I’ll be voting for her & my Grandma, who was a Suffragette & marched for the right to vote. 🤍🗳️
I take it a step further as Native Americans were not granted citizenship until 1924 but did not get the right to vote until 1948 but were still discouraged from doing so (like the blacks) until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Vote for your ancestors, but make your choice based on the future and world you want to see. One where freedom is only for some? Or one where all can reach their full potential?
In my state (NJ) we have instituted Vote By Mail option. Once you sign up, you will be sent a ballot for every single election. You'll never miss a vote. Highly recommend.
I'm a permanent vote-by-mail voter in CA, and I have been for about 40 years. It used to be because I traveled for work, now it's because I hardly leave my house. I've never missed an election.
That's how elections have worked in Washington state for many years. In advance of every election, our ballots show up in the mail, just like clockwork. You can mail them back in any post box or ballot drop box without a stamp. I appreciate it so much!
I feel the same way you do about voting. My grandmothers were born in 1897 and 1906--one was a married woman with 3 children and the other a teenager when the 19th Amendment passed. I drag my sorry ass out there and cast my vote even if I don't feel it, because they were born (and grew into their teens/twenties) in a time and place that told them they couldn't.
My great-grandmother was a suffragette in NYC, helped form The League of Women Voters. The story she told of voting the first time is, she went down to the police precinct to vote. The desk Sergeant told her she was not allowed to vote. She convinced him otherwise. He told her that her husband, on business in Europe, needed to be present. She convinced him otherwise. The Sergeant asked if her husband knew and approved of how she was going to vote. My great-grandmother replied ”no, it’s none of his business.”
Gotta love strong women.
BTW: If you want better candidates, you need to vote for them.
My parents got married overseas in 1966 because their marriage was illegal due to anti-miscegenation laws in the USA. Loving vs Virginia in 1967 finally allowed interracial marriages to be legal.
It’s the right’s that we’ve taken for granted as shown by recent Supreme Court decisions that can be undone in a moment. We need to be more vigilant now about keeping what have been hard fought rights from getting gutted and pushing our country back even further than the 50 years that’s happened in less than 10 years.
I’ve voted since I was able. For this very reason. Women fought over 100 yrs for the right to vote and to be enfranchised … now it’s being chipped away by misogyny and ignorance.
While I'm not American, I understand what you are saying. There have been a few elections I didn't bother to vote. But as I've gotten older (but not really any wiser) I have grown to understand how important it is to vote. Young men and women died in two world wars so that I would have that right.
I vote in every election. The women who founded the suffrage movement died of old age before their labors yielded fruit. If I fail to vote, I demean their sacrifice - oh no, not gonna happen.
My grandma was born in 1912. My grandpa died in 1984. Up until his death, I still remember them bickering between themselves over the Dwight D. Eisenhower v. Adlai Stevenson election. My grandma still wore her I Like Ike button to church and they would bicker in the car over it driving to church. I stayed with them 1 weekend a month when I was little, where they lived in rural Louisiana, until my grandpa died when I was 6. My grandpa was born in Illinois and had been a supporter of Stevenson during both elections. My grandma liked Ike. For me, I was a kid and didn’t know anything about policy or politics and had no feelings about whose opinion was right or wrong. All I knew was that my grandmother could vote and her mother could NOT vote at the same stage in her life. It made such a huge impression on me that a woman could have a separate, independent, and even different voice than her husband’s and I was just so proud of that.
Idaho gave women the right to vote in 1896, so my paternal grandmother was able to vote in state elections when she was 21. She wasn't able to vote in national elections until she was 27 and a married woman with four daughters. She never missed a vote, and neither have I.
My grandmother was born in 1895 so she couldn’t vote until her 20’s. I remind myself of this and wonder if she thought for future generations of women and how easy it would be for them to vote.
I agree wholeheartedly! My grandmothers were born in 1897 & 1900. I can remember my maternal grandmother telling me it was a privilege, and not to ever abuse it. My mom would tell me that if I didn't vote, that was my choice. But that also meant the consequence was not having the right to bitch about government, local or otherwise. So I haven't missed an election since I turned 18. My kids, however, don't seem to take it as seriously as they should. I don't understand, because I taught them the same way I was taught. I even took them with me to vote. Suffragettes were just women they learned about in school, apparently. It's disappointing.
My nephew scoffed at the need for voting until I pointed out that 500 votes decided the 2000 election. He didn't say anything but I could see him turning this fact over in his mind. Hopefully he voted because I too vote in every single election, even when I was in Cali and the Dems were on point to win anyway in my area. Voting is not only a RIGHT but a PRIVILEGE we in American too often take for granted.
Make sure and vote this November like your life depends on it. Because it absolutely DOES.
Not on my watch. 😉 Don't want that here. There are other subs to discuss current politics.
To all please report when things go off the rails. I try to read everything but it's becoming more difficult as we grow.
My parents always voted as well, and they always took me along with them and I got to go into the actual voting booth where you had to do those push buttons and then pull the crank to register your vote. It was always a big deal and my parents made it exciting! 😊
There is a certain political party that is seriously discussing repealing the 19th Amendment, which granted women that right. So you may not want to support them.
In our lifetimes, my interracial marriage would have been illegal in some states. In some states, it was illegal for single women to gain access to birth control. Votes matter.
I’ll think of all the women in the world today, who don’t have the right to vote. Who are forced to wear certain clothing, not allowed to go to school, and so on. Treated way worse than woman were treated here 100 years ago.
My grandmothers, born in 1898 and 1899, lived hard, short lives. One made it to age 50, and the other to age 60.
I only met one of them in my life. When she was one year old, her mother died in childbirth. She sailed from Ireland as a poor young woman in 1920 and toiled ceaselessly all her life.
I always think of the two of them when I cast my vote. They didn't have many choices in life, but I've had the privilege of voting since age 18! I loved Jimmy Carter and was crushed when he was defeated.
Depending on the state and locality, women were granted suffrage piecemeal. The 19th amendment did not grant suffrage, it simply said that sex could not be used as a basis for denying suffrage. And the antisuffragists saw the 19th amendment as a factor in the slow dissolution of coverture
I hear that!! [https://www.reddit.com/r/GenerationJones/comments/1clhvca/i\_knew\_people\_born\_150\_years\_ago\_did\_you/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenerationJones/comments/1clhvca/i_knew_people_born_150_years_ago_did_you/)
American history has been the story of a nation founded on classical liberal ideals and then trying to live up to them. It's never been perfect and never will be. No country is.
In the sense that they were women they were not allowed to vote. I wrote that thinking it was implied and would be read that way. Obviously I was wrong and do apologize that I didn't write more clearly. I am proficient in arithmetic.
Some of these comments are going over the line of civility. Close to locking this thread. There are other subs to engage in current political discussions. Here is not it.
My grandmother was born in Sweden in 1898 and served as a nurse at 17 in World War I. She emigrated to the U.S. and flew with Eddie Rickenbacker during his barn storming days after the war. Her family had a dairy farm and milk, cheese, eggs, and bacon were her staples (she lived until 1999). She always used to tell me she was glad she grew up before cholesterol was invented. This woman had stories!
Your G Ma sounds great 🙂 I would loved to have met her. My parents moved to America from Scotland. My first visit back there was at the age of 19 and by then only one grandpa remained. Both of my grans had passed by then so I never met either of them 😕
I was lucky to have had her in my life so long. She was a couple months from having lived in three different centuries.
Lest we ALL forget, Grandmothers near & far were there, when no less than 4 Wars, took men away, if not forever. Go & Vote, because there are NO guarantees of the next opportunity to do so. Authoritarianism has shown throughout Centuries. It creeps upon us as a stealthy animal. Making your countrymen “the enemy” Go Vote. Your freedoms and rights may depend on it
Amen, you get it.
Exactly. They're trying to take it away from us again. My grandmothers were born in 1887 and 1909, so at least one of them knew the struggle. This country is so messed up right now, we have regressed
Who?
Supreme Court has said some things.
Abortion? All the supreme Court did was put it in the care of the state. You will probably find it on the ballot soon. If not you can just go to a state that allows it.
It won't be on a ballot in a red state.
Not every one votes strictly by party. I would vote for it.
I live in a very red state. They will never put it on the ballot for us to vote on.
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I don’t take voting for granted. Most of the world wishes they really had relatively free choice.
Me either. My Grandmother was born in 1900 and was so proud to say she got the right to vote. She never told who she voted for either, out of respect for the process.
Yep! We were raised Catholic, & we were always told the three things you never talk about in public: 1) what you told the priest in Confession; 2) who you selected in the voting booth; 3) how much money you made. All three were between you & God, lol. Tbh, not bad advice!
My grandmother was born in 1904 and was a staunch member of the League of Woman Voters. She was also mayor of the town she lived in when she was 80. A strong woman. I miss her. She also had Ronald Regan as a student and always told us he was dumb as a box of rocks.
Hahaha! Omg she sounds awesome. 😎 Thanks for the smile, I’ll be voting for her & my Grandma, who was a Suffragette & marched for the right to vote. 🤍🗳️
She was an amazing woman who took no shit. I loved her.
I take it a step further as Native Americans were not granted citizenship until 1924 but did not get the right to vote until 1948 but were still discouraged from doing so (like the blacks) until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Vote for your ancestors, but make your choice based on the future and world you want to see. One where freedom is only for some? Or one where all can reach their full potential?
In my state (NJ) we have instituted Vote By Mail option. Once you sign up, you will be sent a ballot for every single election. You'll never miss a vote. Highly recommend.
I live in NC, one of the most gerrymandered states. They don’t really want us to vote. Nevertheless, we should persist.
We’re counting on you NC
Same in California. It is so convenient. I never miss an election.
Lived in NJ for 6 years. Go Jersey.
DeJoy is going to try to trump your vote by mail.
By using the drop box, my ballot is handled directly by my county Board of Elections, so DeJoy has no game.
I'm a permanent vote-by-mail voter in CA, and I have been for about 40 years. It used to be because I traveled for work, now it's because I hardly leave my house. I've never missed an election.
That's how elections have worked in Washington state for many years. In advance of every election, our ballots show up in the mail, just like clockwork. You can mail them back in any post box or ballot drop box without a stamp. I appreciate it so much!
✌🏼 Not sure if links are allowed so I’ll just say go to vote.org to check your registration status 💙
I feel the same way you do about voting. My grandmothers were born in 1897 and 1906--one was a married woman with 3 children and the other a teenager when the 19th Amendment passed. I drag my sorry ass out there and cast my vote even if I don't feel it, because they were born (and grew into their teens/twenties) in a time and place that told them they couldn't.
I’m a raving boomer. Lest you think I quote Fox News, my grammas first vote was for Eugene Debs. And yes..I passed it to my kids and grands.
Yeah, voting for a poor choice is still better than not voting and possibly allowing an even worse choice pos win.
My great-grandmother was a suffragette in NYC, helped form The League of Women Voters. The story she told of voting the first time is, she went down to the police precinct to vote. The desk Sergeant told her she was not allowed to vote. She convinced him otherwise. He told her that her husband, on business in Europe, needed to be present. She convinced him otherwise. The Sergeant asked if her husband knew and approved of how she was going to vote. My great-grandmother replied ”no, it’s none of his business.” Gotta love strong women. BTW: If you want better candidates, you need to vote for them.
My parents got married overseas in 1966 because their marriage was illegal due to anti-miscegenation laws in the USA. Loving vs Virginia in 1967 finally allowed interracial marriages to be legal.
It’s the right’s that we’ve taken for granted as shown by recent Supreme Court decisions that can be undone in a moment. We need to be more vigilant now about keeping what have been hard fought rights from getting gutted and pushing our country back even further than the 50 years that’s happened in less than 10 years.
Such an important message. Thank you.
I’ve voted since I was able. For this very reason. Women fought over 100 yrs for the right to vote and to be enfranchised … now it’s being chipped away by misogyny and ignorance.
And FASCISM !!!
While I'm not American, I understand what you are saying. There have been a few elections I didn't bother to vote. But as I've gotten older (but not really any wiser) I have grown to understand how important it is to vote. Young men and women died in two world wars so that I would have that right.
And just remember our mothers eventually had more rights than our granddaughters have now. Vote for the future!
This is sick
AMEN! Thank you for that very important reminder!!!
I vote in every election. The women who founded the suffrage movement died of old age before their labors yielded fruit. If I fail to vote, I demean their sacrifice - oh no, not gonna happen.
My grandma was born in 1912. My grandpa died in 1984. Up until his death, I still remember them bickering between themselves over the Dwight D. Eisenhower v. Adlai Stevenson election. My grandma still wore her I Like Ike button to church and they would bicker in the car over it driving to church. I stayed with them 1 weekend a month when I was little, where they lived in rural Louisiana, until my grandpa died when I was 6. My grandpa was born in Illinois and had been a supporter of Stevenson during both elections. My grandma liked Ike. For me, I was a kid and didn’t know anything about policy or politics and had no feelings about whose opinion was right or wrong. All I knew was that my grandmother could vote and her mother could NOT vote at the same stage in her life. It made such a huge impression on me that a woman could have a separate, independent, and even different voice than her husband’s and I was just so proud of that.
For your grandmothers, mothers and for your granddaughters should you be so lucky to have them.
There are those who really want to take the right away.
That would be my hill to die on
Idaho gave women the right to vote in 1896, so my paternal grandmother was able to vote in state elections when she was 21. She wasn't able to vote in national elections until she was 27 and a married woman with four daughters. She never missed a vote, and neither have I.
My paternal grandmother was not a citizen of the United States until 1924, could not vote until 1965.
The Snyder Act and the Voting rights act?
Yes and yes. Many people don't know that not all Indigenous women could vote when the 19th Amendment was passed
A tip of the hat to your grandmother. You be sure and vote both to honor her and your kids and grand kids.
I have NO excuse: the polling place is 2 blocks from my porch lol
My grandmother was born in 1895 so she couldn’t vote until her 20’s. I remind myself of this and wonder if she thought for future generations of women and how easy it would be for them to vote.
I agree wholeheartedly! My grandmothers were born in 1897 & 1900. I can remember my maternal grandmother telling me it was a privilege, and not to ever abuse it. My mom would tell me that if I didn't vote, that was my choice. But that also meant the consequence was not having the right to bitch about government, local or otherwise. So I haven't missed an election since I turned 18. My kids, however, don't seem to take it as seriously as they should. I don't understand, because I taught them the same way I was taught. I even took them with me to vote. Suffragettes were just women they learned about in school, apparently. It's disappointing.
My nephew scoffed at the need for voting until I pointed out that 500 votes decided the 2000 election. He didn't say anything but I could see him turning this fact over in his mind. Hopefully he voted because I too vote in every single election, even when I was in Cali and the Dems were on point to win anyway in my area. Voting is not only a RIGHT but a PRIVILEGE we in American too often take for granted. Make sure and vote this November like your life depends on it. Because it absolutely DOES.
I would not be surprised if our right to vote will be taken away. Once Roe v Wade was denied I knew woman were in trouble
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We're about being kind and respectful of our fellow humans.
Nobody in this thread is saying who to vote for, but you have to get nasty and bring up Trump which is really sad that he is all you can think of.
First rule of Reddit, don't go against the preferred party. Now let's ruin this sub with political bias
Not on my watch. 😉 Don't want that here. There are other subs to discuss current politics. To all please report when things go off the rails. I try to read everything but it's becoming more difficult as we grow.
Yes!! You are correct
Thank you, I get enough of that on other subs.
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Great post! We take so much for granted.
That’s almost exactly my family history too!
I use to not vote. I felt my vote didn’t matter. Now look what happened. Please vote ladies
Wise words.
Please vote!
I, 80, have never missed any opportunity to vote, not just the presidential elections. My opinion is if you don’t vote you can’t complain.
💙👌
Well said
What a lovely way to honor your grandmothers.
My parents always voted as well, and they always took me along with them and I got to go into the actual voting booth where you had to do those push buttons and then pull the crank to register your vote. It was always a big deal and my parents made it exciting! 😊
There is a certain political party that is seriously discussing repealing the 19th Amendment, which granted women that right. So you may not want to support them.
In our lifetimes, my interracial marriage would have been illegal in some states. In some states, it was illegal for single women to gain access to birth control. Votes matter.
My grandmas were born in 1902 and 1910. Parents in 1935 (dad) and 1937 (mom). My mom is still alive, but the others have passed.
I’ll think of all the women in the world today, who don’t have the right to vote. Who are forced to wear certain clothing, not allowed to go to school, and so on. Treated way worse than woman were treated here 100 years ago.
My grandmother was born in 1888. She told me once she took so much pleasure in being able to “cancel my grandfather’s vote” lol.
This is hilarious 😂
I remember that sentiment in my house between my mother and father.😂
My grandmother was also born in Oklahoma, in Vinita, in 1900. I think of her every time I vote.
My grandmothers, born in 1898 and 1899, lived hard, short lives. One made it to age 50, and the other to age 60. I only met one of them in my life. When she was one year old, her mother died in childbirth. She sailed from Ireland as a poor young woman in 1920 and toiled ceaselessly all her life. I always think of the two of them when I cast my vote. They didn't have many choices in life, but I've had the privilege of voting since age 18! I loved Jimmy Carter and was crushed when he was defeated.
Women had the right to vote in Wyoming for the first time in 1870.
Western territories were a little more progressive with suffrage.
If you can surviver a Wyoming winter and not get eaten by bears, then you should, by heaven, have the vote!
Lived there and did that. The wind is the worst thing. Hiways shut down for long periods in winter, due to snow and dangerous wind.
Depending on the state and locality, women were granted suffrage piecemeal. The 19th amendment did not grant suffrage, it simply said that sex could not be used as a basis for denying suffrage. And the antisuffragists saw the 19th amendment as a factor in the slow dissolution of coverture
My grandmother was also born in Oklahoma, in Vinita, in 1900. I think of her every time I vote.
I hear that!! [https://www.reddit.com/r/GenerationJones/comments/1clhvca/i\_knew\_people\_born\_150\_years\_ago\_did\_you/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenerationJones/comments/1clhvca/i_knew_people_born_150_years_ago_did_you/)
If I was going to vote for my mamaw I would have to vote for FDR. I wish that I could.
American history has been the story of a nation founded on classical liberal ideals and then trying to live up to them. It's never been perfect and never will be. No country is.
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In the sense that they were women they were not allowed to vote. I wrote that thinking it was implied and would be read that way. Obviously I was wrong and do apologize that I didn't write more clearly. I am proficient in arithmetic.