It’s pretty telling how easily liberals give up on their supposed ambitions even when the effort was obviously flawed.
Why is this a headline? The racist, misogynist, bigoted electorate that got us to where we are won’t elect a woman? Maybe they’re just unlikeable.
Probably because the US is such a religious conservative country. Christianity (especially evangelical and more conservative type), patriarchy and authoritarianism go together, and that’s who the great majority of his voters were.
Considering trump won twice against women but lost when he ran against a man, it seems the majority of voters would rather elect any man than any woman, even if that man is seriously flawed on every imaginable level. Only when both candidates were men were factors other than gender given more weight.
Given how incredibly well the harris campaign was doing at first and the outpouring of bi-partisan support for shooting CEOs dead in the street immediately after the election, and the barnstorming success of mamdani, i think it’s safe the say harris lost because they took pelosi’s advice and tacked hard to the right, instead of solidifying their early victories by continuing to lean left.
I think it’s pretty clear the country was willing to vote for harris, dems just fucked it up.
Agreed, it was theirs to lose, as it often is. It’s a known fact that if more people vote it tends to swing left, so I’m not sure why they always seem to try and cater to the right side voters who are going to be much harder to convince. I mean I know part of it is most of the Democratic party is actually centralist, but still… go after the easier win that might actually help your case? And maybe move that way politically to ensure power?
Long story short: They’re beholden to their donors, not their constituents. They’re not centrists because they believe in that stuff (I suspect they do, but that’s incidental), but because their donors want them to be centrists. I mean, if they ran on a leftwing program they’d need to do something leftwing to appease their constituents, and that would require them to tax the rich.
Other parts of the world already had women as presidents and prime ministers for decades. Some countries have had queens as the primary ruler for centuries.
Then there is America.
She’s right.
We would have elected one by now if that was the case OHWAITWEDID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_electionAnd Harris saw a massive surge of popularity when Biden first stepped down. When the only thing most people knew about her was that she was a black woman, everyone loved her. It was only when she opened her mouth that her popularity tanked hard.
She was pretty popular when Tim
KaineWaltz was calling out Republicans forbeing eeird and heinous. But then they reigned that in and decided to focus on how great the economy actually was and started to bring out the most heinous Republicans from 20 years ago for rhe campaign.Ugh, its been a year. Thanks for reminding me of the most consequential campaign fumble of all time
Not Tim Kaine, Walz
Doesn’t help that the “women candidate” the DNC spit out are neoliberal status quo protectors, their “female candidates” is at best performative from them.
Oh, like their men candidates.
Funny how this logic never seems to apply to their male running candidates, who clear elections left and right running on the exact same politics. Or was the status quo perfectly fine 4 years ago, then everyone suddenly changed their minds?
But, that logic does apply to their male running candidates too.
Doesn’t help
neoliberal status quo protectors
performative
All still applies.
Albeit a mite differently, given the status quo being protected.
I’m so fucking sick of this argument. It’s nothing more than centrist cope; a way of willfully misunderstanding the reason for Hillary Clinton’s and Kamala Harris’ campaign failures.
Sad indeed. The rest of the world does mostly okay by their elected woman leaders. So…no metric system and no women leaders. Got it. I just hope to all that is holy that the country is not ready for a pedophiliac leader.
Big Mike said what!?
That’s sexist!
Sorry… That’s been up a day, and no one did a “Big Mike” comment yet!? … Censorship? Surely that’s not possible. C’mon internet. You’re slipping.
No it’s not America isn’t ready for a woman president. It’s not ready to have the DNC keep nominating candidates that lack any appeal or enthusiasm.
Let me preface this rant with I voted for both Hillary and Kamala.
Hillary was a terrible candidate because she is neither conservative or liberal/progressive. The DNC railroaded Bernie because it was Hillary’s “turn”.
And with Kamala instead of have an actual primary and getting the best candidate, they just shoe horned her in at the last possible minute and expected everyone to just be ok with it. Not to mention she falls into the same category as Hillary who is neither conservative or progressive so equally disliked on both sides.
I think the problem ultimately lies within the democrats themselves unwilling to listen to the younger voters who are in dire need of hope and change not the status quo that really isn’t working for them or anybody really. It also doesn’t help that neither party really gives two shits about pissing off the liberal base and it shows.
To be fair to Harris, it really wasn’t her fault. At the time Biden stepped down it was far too late to have a proper primary.
Probably by the design of the donor class.
No doubt.
Yep, 41 years old and the Democratic party has nothing for me. I switched from my long standing independent status to democratic just to vote for Bernie in the primaries. I then voted for Hillary, Biden, and Kamala in the general even though I hated all three, why not vote 3rd party? Trump was clearly too much of a danger to our country the day he came down that escalator.
I’ve recently taken to explaining my recent switch to voting for Democrats like this. Democrats are a cancer, Republicans are a fast moving flesh eating disease. I’d rather have something slow moving that has the potential to be stopped with less damage.
Sure, lady, explain that again when they want to put Ivanka in the Oval Office after her old man croaks.
Anyone suggesting that the US is too sexist to elect a woman president has to explain the election of Claudia Sheinbaum.
By every metric I can find, Mexico is more misogynistic than the US. You can look at crime statistics on domestic violence, rape, murder; or opinion surveys showing men’s negative attitude toward women – all the stats coming out of Mexico are worse.
Yet somehow, Mexico overwhelmingly elected a woman (a Jewish woman in an 85% Christian population, too).
My hypothesis is that policy matters much more than the gender of a candidate. Kamala had absolutely pathetic policy proposals, supporting the status quo of corporate economic domination and a foreign policy soaked in innocent blood. but maybe I’m biased.
Stranger things have happened…
I got banned from a forum (where I had over 5000 posts, and was largely very well liked) in 2007/8 when I would not back down from suggesting in strong terms that there was no way USA was going to elect Obama because of too much racism. Boy was I wrong.
(Still… no reason to ban someone for pointing out racism. Eh? Even if in erroneous perception.)
A token lady puppet may yet still happen.
There was some expectations that she was just AMLO term 2 the way Bush Sr. was Reagan term 3.
Can you imagine a world where Democrats are going to go all in on competing on policy?
Many imagine they already live in that world.
Must be pleasant living in that dream.
Hard to wake up from, to face the horror.
Their donors/handlers would be so angry!
Thats why Run For Something exists. They train young progressive candidates who win
They don’t like all this bullshit happening, don’t take AIPAC and their members don’t either.
Research them/volunteer and let’s get things done. Encourage good people you know who will actually do the job, and actually care for people to apply to be candidates for them.
Many of their candidates have won 1/2 weeks ago and they are gaining more candidates applying/people in office who win. Search up their Substack: RFS Feel Good for their accomplishments from every month nationwide to make country better. Also Amanda Litman is a good leader to look into.
If we want better we gotta keep going together!! Get more people you see active as well!!
Mexico doesn’t have as bonehead of an election system that favors the more historically sexist party.
I watched a documentary about the last US election where they interviewed people in New York City, there was a black guy who genuinely said that women shouldn’t be presidents because of their periods…
Regression.
I feel like 10+ years ago the USA would have been more ready (maybe still not fully, idk).
She is unfortunately not wrong.
I still can’t believe how republicans just flipped out with obama.
Republicans are racist pieces of shit. Obama is black. Doesn’t surprise me at all.
I think thats it. Its just like the majority of the country seemed to be moving forward but there was this minority which dug their heels in and don’t move on and it kinda feels like it kept growing to where its a pretty significant sized. Feels like some decided where they dug in was to progressive and are working to move backwards.
