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Mike Lux's fantastic new book, The Progressive Revolution: How The Best In America Came To Be and what I found the most telling-- and I believe it's what Lux was getting across-- that all the best in America, from the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the Bill of Rights, the emancipation of the slaves, the right of women and minorities to vote, the right of working people to form unions, the minimum wage, to Social Security, Medicare, the national parks, consumer protection, etc-- was a pitched battle between progressives pushing for these things and conservatives trying to prevent each and every one of them. Conservatives have always been, and continue to be, on the wrong side of history. And appear happy and or compelled to be so!

Yesterday a prominent conservative author and pundit, John Derbyshire best known for his reactionary columns in the National Review, was on the radio defending a chapter in his new book that has gotten some attention, "The Case Against Female Suffrage.” Basically, he is willing to admit what conservatives in general believe but keep to themselves, that their vision of the American Dream does not, has never, and will never include women being allowed to vote.

“The conservative case against it [women's suffrage] is that women lean hard to the left,” Derbyshire explained to an appalled Alan Colmes. “They want someone to nurture, they want someone to help raise their kids, and if men aren’t inclined to do it-- and in the present days, they’re not much-- then they’d like the state to do it for them.” Like most conservatives, he doesn't just want to take away the right of women to vote. He also doesn't see why minorities should be voting and freely admits opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.