Twice now American voters have picked the absolute worse person imaginable over a woman an awful candidate who refuses to consider the wants and needs of the base and happened to be a woman.
Fixed it for you. While I'd never go to such ridiculous lengths as to say that sexism isn't a serious systemic problem, that's not why Hillary and Kamala lost.
It wasn't that people aren't ready for a female president. It was that the vast majority of people to the left of fascism are more than ready for a president that listens to them more than to owner donors, strategists stuck in 1992, and other unrepresentative power brokers
The only logical explanation I can find is there is a subsection of the population unwilling to vote for a woman "Centrist"
Fixed it for you again.
Nobody except the aforementioned owner donors, strategists stuck in 1992, and other unrepresentative power brokers want "Republican mild" candidates with no substance except an almost religioud reverence for the broken system that has enabled them to fail upwards for decades.
Obviously yes each campaign had it's issue we can go into
Understatement of the decade.
when you look at the opposition it's hard to find the logic
Not really no. When you consider the following, it makes a sick sort of sense:
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Republicans are many times more effective at messaging. This is mainly because they're much less likely to be constrained by such details as objective reality, ethics, and authenticity, but their propaganda is nonetheless MUCH more effective than the thrice-measured sound bytes of the Dem leadership.
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In the vast majority of states, it's MUCH more difficult and time consuming to vote in the kinds of neighborhoods that skew more Blue and diverse than Red and filthy rich.
During covid, the number of absentee ballot dropoff points in the most populous county in Texas (Harris, almost 5 million) was decreased to ONE, all the while country clubs of a hundred members still had their own official polling station and even impoverished Red areas are typically rural so there's not many people per polling station
- The combination of 1, 2, and other election tampering means that it takes a LOT more to get the entire Dem base to vote than for the Fascist Party base.
As a result of this, Dems NEED a candidate that's inspiring enough that even the most jaded will go way above and beyond the amount of effort it SHOULD take in order to vote for them.
Neither Hillary nor Kamala was anywhere close to being that candidate and they wouldn't have been if they were men either.
And before you go "but the man Biden won! Checkmate!", I'd like to remind you that he actually won the popular vote by a smaller margin than Hillary did, and that he did so during an active pandemic that the incumbent fascist had been failing to manage so spectacularly that anything other than a landslide victory would be extremely worrying for the future of the Dem party.