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Two extremely qualified women both were defeated by the worst candidate in our countries history.
I love AOC and her policies, but this country has proven it'll vote for literally the worst encapsulation of boomer greed than vote for a capable and competent woman. Twice.
The Democrats are morons if they pick a woman to run next time. Simple as that.
Let AOC kick Schumer out and take his senate seat. She would be much more effective there.
Clinton won the popular vote, and Harris lost because of her last minute hard-right turn alienated everyone.
That worst candidate didn't win by a landslide either time, so I don't think it's fair to say America will never vote for a woman. Lots of Americans did vote for a woman. According to CNN: "More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history."
People forget that aside from the email bullshit, it was widely reported that Clinton received something like 26 million dollars for speaking engagements, behind closed doors to bankers and American robber barons. Some parts of her speeches were leaked, but she never released any transcripts. I think that fueled voter apathy and "both sides the same" feeling for a lot of people, including two-income families struggling to make ends meet.
You think if a man had done the same, no-one except Bernie Sanders would care?
As for the second strong capable woman, I voted for her, despite her seeming support for the ongoing genocide. I'm not convinced that election was legit.
We need someone who looks like John Fetterman and thinks like AOC.
You have to blame media for its part in it.
Social media played a heavy hand in artificially inflating trump with its complete and blatant refusal step in and curtail any of the deluge of manufactured bullshit, fake AI controlled accounts, troll farm posts, blatant misinformation, etc, etc, etc.
broadcast media as well, for being so thirsty for ratings and another trump presidency they basically sanewashed every thing he did, when they could bother reporting on it at all, because they knew if he got elected it'd be 4 more years of people desperately turning in every day to see what fresh horrors trump was unleashing, which would drive ratings and revenues to the stratosphere.
I totally blame the media for a massive part of it. Biden has one bad debate and the news talked about it for over a month.
trump literally did the handjob dance and stood there doing nothing for 40 minutes, and it was out of the news cycle in 24 hours.
The news is why he got elected both times. Which is why I refuse to watch news anymore.
...2 mildly qualified women. Certainly not extremely
A former senator and secretary of state counts as extremely qualified by most standards
What is extremely qualified for that job by your standards? Like, name a person.
Bernie Sanders. AOC would make a good vice president for him, and after 8 years make a run of her own.
Bernies would've been a good example, no longer as he's too old. Pritzker would've been. Anyone who doesn't bend to the establishment.
People who follow security procedure would be pretty great too.
Hillary is so establishment entrenched it's ridiculous. Harris did not have a spine enough to run her own campaign right. Those are what I feel make them less qualified for the office.
I don't exactly go around looking at politicians to see if I think they'd be good as presidents ....
You think the guy who could never form a single coalition to pass any major legislation is a good choice?
No offense but that's dumb.
Bernie has good politics but he's a horrendous politician. Standing off to the side saying the right things, and never getting any legislation passed, is not being a leader. Part of politics is getting people on your side.
He tried to come in and tell everyone he wanted to be the team captain, while never playing a single inning for the team he was wanting to lead.
Are you shocked that people who played on that team didn't want him to be the leader?