Women Like Big Government

Yes, they really do.  John Lott has run the numbers in his new book Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t, says Bill Steigerwald, and he’s found that government expenditure starts a rapid climb anywhere as soon as women get the vote. 

And the climb in government spending pretty well tracks women’s vote count.

Let’s take a look with John Lott at a woman over her lifetime “(men pretty much stay the same over the course of their lives in terms of their political views, for better or worse)”:

• Single young women are liberal relative to single young men.
• When women get married they get more conservative — about half of the gap between men and women is eliminated.
• When women get married and then have kids, about half of the remaining gap — or about 75 percent of the original gap — gets eliminated.
• When women get divorced, with kids, they become much more liberal than they were to begin with.

And I think that we can also add that when women become widows they also become more liberal.

What we see here is the fundamental practical outlook of women.  Woman understands that she needs backup.  If there’s no husband in her life then she chooses government as her backup.

My own feeling here is that women do what they are told.  They go to school and actually learn stuff—unlike men.  So of course when they are taught at the government school to love government they lap it up.  Until they get married and have children and find out that the government is taking too much money away from them, their husbands,  and their children.

Women are not like men.  For women, life is serious and you don’t get any second chances.  So what makes women really mad is to get a bum steer, so that they look back on the last ten years and feel it was all wasted.

My judgment is that some time in the next generation western women are going to figure out that government really screws up a woman’s life.

When that happens, watch out liberals!