=A reworked and updated diary=
Let history be your guide.
Conservatives, Bigots, those who are loath to cede any Power... they always fight tooth & nail against Reform. And --eventually-- they always lose. Then you know what happens? After a few years that thing that they predicted would bring about the "End of America as We Know It" winds up becoming, well, normal. Few Conservatives would today advocate abolishing the Nineteenth Amendment (giving women the vote), but 90 years ago it was a Thing of Horror to America's Right Wing.
Same with Truman's Integration of the Military in 1948 (over Southern Politicians' vociferous objections), Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Social Security (Medicare) Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
See this summation of the travails of the Nineteenth Amendment, and how it came to be by the skin of its teeth in 1920:
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