Vance was propped up financially and politically by tech investor Peter Thiel, who has questioned whether women should have the right to vote. Thiel has also backed pseudo-intellectual Curtis Yarvin, who Vance has quoted, and who called slavery a “natural human relationship” akin to “that of patron and client.” Vance himself has floated proposals to water down the votes of women and single people by giving “parents” — mostly fathers in practice — an extra vote per child. This odd proposal shares DNA with the Christian fundamentalist notion of “household voting,” in which a father does the voting for everyone else in the home. It’s another backdoor effort to terminate women’s suffrage.
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