Evangelical author: Husbands shouldn't LET their wives...

My parents had polar opposite political views. My Mother refused to discuss who she voted for because “they’re called secret ballots” for a reason. The real reason was my father was a flipping sexist, racist ass and she didn’t want to listen to his shit so she simply would not discuss it. Needless to say, it wasn’t difficult to tell which side she was on when he sat down at the dinner table one evening and proudly announced he’d been asked to join the KKK and was going to do it. My Mom looked at him and calmly replied, “Please let me know if you do so I can file for divorce.”  With that dinner continued and he didn’t join the KKK. He was a lot of bad things but he wasn’t stupid enough to provide my Mother the grounds to divorce him. They had 9 kids, can you imagine the child support and alimony she’d have gotten? 

This is the same mindset that was just confirmed into the Supreme Court. I'm surprised her husband allowed her to take the job - wonder if she'll have him in an earpiece during cases.

My dh would never try that shit. For years I wouldn't even tell him how I voted, I take the secret part very seriously.

Women worked too hard and too long to give their vote away. I hate the underlying message, all this politics is too much for your little brain to understand. It's the same argument that was used to counter the call for suffrage in the first place.

Expected when you try to rule politics by your religion—a danger to all.

I am counting on people I know to cancel their spouse’s votes.

I was taught to think for myself. No matter how much I love my husband he doesn’t “LET” me do anything

I fill out my husband's ballot and he signs it. He doesn't pay a lot of attention to propositions and I do so he lets me vote those for him. I don't think that we have ever disagreed politically...or on much of anything else.

I choose to laugh rather than rage at this particular moment so I’ll just say “that’s so cute” and look forward to DH getting home from grocery pick-up to see his face when I read this to him. The man says I wouldn’t win the lottery if he told me to so...

DH and I are both democrats, but I’m not a US citizen so I can’t vote. He became a US citizen in 2013 so he can vote.
He told me he’d filled out his mail in ballot and had voted all D, except for our incumbent Republican sheriff.
Guess who had to go get a new ballot?!!!

Our union sends out a sheet with who the union supports and who supports the union.

We go over the list and check out everything in our area.

I do the research on the Issues, discuss with (and sometimes print out) hubby what they are all about, and he usually votes the same as I do because he trusts that I’ve done the due diligence.

Hubby is now more progressive thinking than I am on many things—he’d vote for Bernie in a heartbeat! (And he would be towards bottom of my list!)

I don’t usually see his ballot and he doesn’t see mine but it’s not a kept secret.

Not once in our life together has he ever told me who to vote for, ever! If anything in the 20 years, it’s me who has encouraged him to vote for a particular person.