User blog comment:Fritzmet/Leaving Chat/@comment-7576024-20140802213020/@comment-7576024-20140803114241

Cookie, you have it generally right with the slavery issue.

As for women's suffrage, however, you are off-mark.

There are two separate thoughts I was trying to say with point 4. One is that I just support the return to the American status quo ca 1910 (more accurately, ca 1790, but you get the point).

The second part is that the Progressives attempted to erode at traditional American politics in a number of ways post-1910. Furthemore, the 19th Amendment went into effect in 1920. Therefore, there is a decade difference between my designated "decline date" and universal female suffrage.

The analogy you made was quite illogical. You may as well say "You think the Roman Empire was a good place in 200 AD, and in 200 AD they had slaves." It really is a case of false causation.