The reason women tend to vote Democrat is actually pretty simple: Women are more risk-averse than men. As a result, they want (more so than men) to "feel safe". They are willing to trade freedom for safety, and, as the adage goes, they shall have neither.

Now I'm not saying ALL women are that way. Or that no men are. I'd estimate that about 60% of women are that way and about 45% of men. It's enough to determine the result of almost any vote.

Traditionally, men have been the money-makers and women have been the home-makers. The quest for cheap labor has turned that paradigm on its head. You didn't really think the "women's lib" movement was about more freedom for women, did you? It's really more about doubling the size of the labor pool to drive down wages. But I digress...

Up until early last century, married women couldn't vote, couldn't enter into a contract without their husband's permission and could not sue or be sued in their own name. The husband had a duty to provide and the woman had a duty to obey her husband. The two became "as one" and that one was... the husband.

Fast forward, women have the vote, and the first thing they set about doing was replacing husbands with government benefits. There are several short-term advantages. The government doesn't care why you want the money - it's just going to hand it out to you so you vote for the people who got you the cash. And so women tend to vote for Democrats who give them money. They are purchased by politicians. In the past couple decades, the Republicans have started doing it too.

I don't know why women don't see the long-term effects of their actions. Surely they have to know somewhere in their minds that the money has to come from somewhere. But if you've ever talked to a divorced woman, most will tell you they have a RIGHT to a portion of their ex-husband's income. Under the prior law, this actually made sense. In fact, a woman could not even divorce her husband in the late 19th century. Only the husband could file for divorce. So if it was his decision, and he essentially held "all the cards", it made perfect sense for him to compensate his ex-wife in event of divorce.

Today, women can divorce their husbands - but they STILL expect to be paid. It's not logical, and the courts are finally starting to catch up to the bias. But once again, it's easier for the women to get money from the government, and let the government get the money from the men.

Take a step back from all of this. Tune in the big picture.

The government has been writing checks with no funds in the account for about 40 years now. The debt exceeds $16 trillion. The unfunded mandates over the next 70 years or so amount to $100 trillion. Together, that's over $380,000 for every man, woman and child in the USA. The days of writing checks on an empty account are coming to a close. When it happens, lots of people are going to find their worlds turned upside-down. Government workers may not have jobs. If they do, the money they're paid won't buy anything. The same will be true of the "welfare" programs. The government may crank the monthly benefit up to $10,000, or $100,000. Whatever it is, it won't be enough to live on. Men who have been kicked out of their homes may well stop making payments to ex's, simply because the government won't have any way to enforce divorce edicts. And don't expect your "emergency" calls to the police to be answered. Take a look at what happened in Oakland when their budget got a little tight. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Suf... Now imagine it 10 times, 100 times worse.

Women will learn the hard lesson once again that the government does not make them safe. The pendulum has been swinging in the direction of irresponsible spending and catering to the wants of women for 50 years. And within the next couple years, it will begin to swing back.

It's not going to be pretty.

MEN built this Country. Women may have encouraged them, kept the house and raised the kids - but MEN built the Country. They made it safe. They made it so safe, that women felt comfortable enough to push for stupid things. And men let them. Look around the world. The western countries that all let women vote are now in decline. They are collapsing.

It took 150-200 years for MEN to build America. Women will destroy it in 50 years. At this point, I think the inertia is too great. I don't think there's any way to stop it.

But the short answer is, women vote Democrat because they put their own interests above the good of the country and don't mind being bought off.

That's true. But if you look at $100 TRILLION in unfunded Federal mandates, it's not for defense. It's all social welfare.