WATCH: Hillary Clinton Warns Of Abuse Of ‘Extreme Power’ Plus Alito’s Invocation Of Rapist Matthew Hale Is More Screwed Than You Know

We listen to Hillary too little, too late, unfortunately. She made it clear back in 2016 that she was the victim of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” and she was. Never has a politician been so lied about as she was, and demonized like she was, wholly without merit.

We’ll never know what happened if America had gone down the road not taken and elected Hillary Clinton. What we did find out instead, those of us lulled into a liberal stupor by eight years of Obama bliss, was how conspiracy theory and the cult of celebrity overwhelmed common sense and simple decency.

Here she is with another prediction.

“It is incredibly dangerous:” @HillaryClinton reacts to the leaked SCOTUS draft majority, “Once you allow this kind of extreme power to take hold, you have no idea who they will come for next.” More tonight on the CBS Evening News with @NorahODonnell. https://t.co/sDClYhc1zE pic.twitter.com/vVNqi0RLzf

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 5, 2022

I believe she’s right. I also believe that a right to an education in this country may be next. Think about it: keep the electorate stupid and superstitious, minds filled with muck, and you control them, right?

And it’s not just muck, it’s far worse than that. Alito mentioned Sir Matthew Hale, who is none other than an advocate of marital rape.

Sir Matthew Hale was a huge advocate for marital rape. Like many early modern men, he believed that women's bodies belonged to men, first their father when they were born and then their husband when they were married. WOMEN WERE NOT SEEN AS AUTONOMOUS BEINGS.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

Hale, just like a lot of Christian extremists today, believed that women were made from Adam's rib. God did not make her as an autonomous being with rights. She was a physical extension of his body, made to be his "helpmeet," namely to exist to help him to whatever he wants.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

Hale therefore wrote in his posthumously published book Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1713) that marital rape was totally legal. In fact, because a man owned a woman's body as it was an extension of his own to do with whatever he willed, he was incapable of marital rape.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

Let's say a woman vocalized her opinion and it ran contrary to her husband's. She didn't want sex. Hale believed that this put her in violation of her marital vows. She was literally breaking the law. Women who denied men sex needed to be punished.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

Let's say a woman vocalized her opinion and it ran contrary to her husband's. She didn't want sex. Hale believed that this put her in violation of her marital vows. She was literally breaking the law. Women who denied men sex needed to be punished.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

Court records, however, were filled with incidents of extreme physical violence against women by their husbands so this advice was rarely followed. Women who were beaten nearly to death rarely saw justice. The courts almost always sided with the husband. He was doing his job.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

It should be no surprise that Hale was responsible for the trial and execution of women for witchcraft and that his legal opinion would be used as a base for the execution of women and children by the state both in England and the Americas.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

Women who were executed by the state for witchcraft were overwhelmingly poor and single. Most were widows. Hale & his contemporaries found independent women to be a serious threat in society. She was not owned by father or husband, which meant that she was an unnatural presence.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

During this time, women could be declared legally independent, such as when a woman without a father became old enough to be freed from being another man's ward. However, these legal declarations of independence were uncommon, and the assumption is that it would be temporary.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

Keep in mind that Hale was only talking about white Christian women. Women who didn't fall into this category were debated as even being women. They were viewed as less than human with even less rights. The rule of thumb didn't apply; they weren't worthy of such restraint.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

And if you think Hale being invoked by Alito was something out of left field, think again. Hale is all over our legal system. The easiest application to find was the Salem Witch Trials, but his influence on our laws is much more insidious than that.

— Dr. Literature_Lady ???? (@Literature_Lady) May 5, 2022

This thread goes on for more and I highly suggest you read it.

I had a dear friend for many years. She passed on in 2016. Her name was Stella Religa. If you google the name, you’ll see that she founded a shelter for battered women. She and I were talking about 30 years ago about why women were so hated and reviled on this planet and we figured that maybe it was the Garden of Eden. Maybe there was some racial memory for Eve messing up all that long ago. There are theologians who debate this point, believe me.

We concluded that there was very little hope for a world that depended upon the subjugation of half of the human race in order to get by. After reading this thread I feel like Samuel Alito has done his best to take us back several centuries.

God Bless the Canadians. They have said that they will let American women come there for abortions, if such a thing can be made feasible.

We live in grim and terrifying times.