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Americans have grown more skeptical that a woman will be president in their lifetime
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I once asked someone who votes liberal if we put only women up for SCOTUS until it was all 9 women, would they be OK with that? The answer was fuck, no! Then I pointed out how long it was only men, and look at what that got us. Women encroaching on traditionally men-only places is still wrong for many voters. Stupid, but that's what we have going on.
I’m more skeptical that we won’t have another president ever period.
I agree. Not because I feel a woman can't do the job, but because too many of my fellow Americans are sexist asshats.
The thing is though, they are self-aware to know they can't just say "a woman can't do the job" out loud. So they say things like "she has a funny laugh" or "she doesn't smile enough". Or say they don't like her policies, even though they can't actually name any of her policies. So there will never be a statistic that proves it. Just call it a prediction based in my learned experience.
I hope to live log enough to see AOC (or some other woman, there are several I think are qualified) become President. But I don't think she can win if she ran right now. And only way she can be in a position to win in 2036 or 2040 is if we turn back the creeping fascism in 2026 and 2028.
You forgot the classic one, "she'll be too emotional", while voting in what we have now.
What really sucks is that because Kamala Harris was not a good candidate, that whole situation probably did damage to the idea of a woman being president and set it back some.
I will argue with you there. She may not have been the best candidate, and might not have won the nomination if there was a primary in 2024, but if she had been elected she would have done the job competently.
Sometimes, the perfect is the enemy of the good.
I agree that she would have been fine. And I certainly voted for her because she wasn't Trump. But she did poorly in the primaries leading up to 2020, she did not distance herself enough from Biden, she isn't the strongest speaker or communicator. I stand by saying that she wasn't a good candidate and that's why she lost to Trump where many other Democrats could have won.
In her defense I don't blame her for it. She was unfairly put into a shitty situation. I blame Biden and the DNC way more, but it is what it is.
Oh, I definitely blame Biden. He should have stuck to his one-term promise.
We might differ on whether Harris was a "good" candidate, but I think we agree that we would have a better candidate (whether it turned out to be Harris or not) if that candidate was chosen as the result of a competitive primary.
Maybe not even competently. The bar is so low even a badly run admin by her would be better than what we have now. Simply because the narcissism and ability to act on it wouldn't be there.
Old, male narcissists seem to be the preference.
People prefer decrepit pants-shitting pedophiles, apparently.