VICTORIA WOODHULL: FIRST FEMALE TO BE NOMINATED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT.

(Sorry Hillary, you lose again).

Hello and welcome to another edition of my blog. Since yesterday was International Women’s Day, I figured I’d introduce a very unique and amazing female from a time when women didn’t have nearly half of the rights they have, in the Western Hemisphere, anyhow. I will not get into the atrocious living conditions for women in most Middle Eastern counties. Look into it yourself, it’s disgusting but it is how most women were treated up until just less than 100 years or so. Just a few years ago Saudi Arabia allowed women to get driver’s licenses, just a FEW YEARS AGO! Of course most women still cannot or won’t drive over there because of the overt sexism and I’m sure their penalty for speeding is 100 lashes or some insane medieval crap like that but I digress. I am going to stick with the positive and tell you about the first Woman to run for the United States Presidency and no her name does not start with an H and that is one of the reasons I am writing this blog on International Women’s Day, well the day after. It is so I can rectify this major historical error that has been swirling since the first time that lady that starts with an H ran fro president, SHE WAS NOT THE FIRST FEMALE TO RUN OR BE NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY. There have been a few but none as interesting or as accomplished as my subject today. Her name was Victoria Woodhull. She was the first publisher of the “Communist Manifesto” in the US and on 2 April, 1870, Ms. Woodhull became a candidate for the presidency, running on the ticket of the National Radical Reformers. (YES, folks, we had many different political parties in the 17-1800s. Why just 2 now)? Her Vice Presidential running mate was none other than Frederick Douglass, the famous African-American orator and abolitionist. When she showed up to vote on election day she was of course turned away because women wouldn’t get the privilege to vote for another 50 years! You want to talk about courage? Could you imagine what she must have gone through on a daily basis? Campaigning everyday, being verbally abused and heckled constantly. I got the above facts from the book I am currently blogging about, The Best, Worst and Most Unusual, by Fulton & Fowler. Circa, 1976. As I went over to Wikipedia to see what they say about MS. Woodhull, I was of course not shocked to see that those biased writers

 for wikipedia turned her story into just that, a widely speculated story. The dates don’t match and some of the Historical  information is skewed. For starters the page claims Ms. Woodhull’s Presidential nomination was a scam, as she wasn’t old enough to run. They then attack the party she was in and mix up a few more dates. The article doesn’t take her claim of being the first nominated Female very seriously because they wanted that woman who’s name that starts with an H to have that honor. The wikipedia page has been changed numerous times in the last few years, with MS. Woodhull’s page even being edited as of 20 February 2020. Why would wikipedia still be changing the page of a woman long forgotten? Unless a certain woman who’s name starts with an H, is thinking about running for president again, then her cronies would be all over that page again, trying to erase an important piece of American History or at least bend it to their own historical guidelines. Just as my last post proved that History can be re-written this post is doing just the same. It wasn’t even my intentions on this post but the manipulation is easily seen. My advice to you would be to go check out your local library one of these days, find a book about Victoria Woodhull and see how historians portrayed her 150 years ago to now. Today’s historians (if that’s what you can call these people who type up a wiki page) have diminished and even tarnished Ms. Woodhull’s historical achievements because it doesn’t line up with the History they want to write or fabricate.

Women and men today should know who Victoria Woodhull is without having to find every flaw that today’s “historians” associate with her. Her wikipedia page is fairly lengthy yet only a small paragraph or two cover her presidential run(S), she ran again twice more. The page then goes on to talk about her three failed marriages, her experimentation with free love, her thoughts on abortion (she was anti-abortion), her ties to prostitution and of course how she and her sister were bribed to move to England by Cornelius Vanderbilt because he was afraid they’d testify against him about real estate abuses. This poor woman has been railroaded more by progressive historians than by those who wrote about her 150 years ago. They have turned a courageous, free spirited, liberated woman into a whore and criminal so their modern day messiah can have that spotlight on her, a clear 150 years after the fact. It is disgusting and just another example of how fragile our real history is.  I began this blog post earlier today ready to talk about a driving force in Woman’s Suffrage only to be derailed by the greed and selfishness of those people whom desperately crave power in our society. It is a true shame that Victoria Woodhull will never get the full respect she deserves just because some women now want what she already had? How can we truly evolve as a species when we keep taking three steps forward then four steps back?

Seriously though, do yourselves a favor and do some research on Victoria Woodhull, just don’t do it on line. Soon books will be a thing of the past and the words written in them will be replaced with inferior or untrue content slapped together to make someone’s history sound better or worse than it really was. Hoard your books, especially history books, protect them and for God’s sake use them! We are living in a time when the history can be re-written and the past can be forgotten.  That is a very scary thought for me.

Ok, well thanks for tuning in again and sorry if I didn’t stay on topic today. Please research this stuff for yourselves, draw your own conclusions. Be aware of what is happening and most importantly never give up on the truth. No matter how hard it becomes to find.

Until Next Time……..PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!