Steinem talks democracy – Daily Lobo – News By Matthew Chavez

America is controlled by the ultra-right, which represents one-third of the population, and is effectively rallied by the National Rifle Association and Christian fundamentalist groups, she said.

“I think of them as the people our European ancestors came here to escape,” she said.

While 90 percent of conservatives vote regularly, less than 60 percent of centrists and liberals turn out to the polls, she said.

“That is the problem,” she said. …

“If (single) women would have voted in the same proportion as married women in the last election, we would have had such a huge margin against Bush that even shenanigans wouldn’t have been able to fix it,” she said.