It's not women, its the politics [View all]

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I recently posted a response to an OP about Michelle Obama in which she stated that America wasn't ready for a female president. I stand by the statement that it has nothing to do with a woman running for president but the politics of those women that was running for president.
At the same time that many Republicans are saying that maybe women shouldn't vote and that raping a 15 year old girl isn't so bad, a thought leader in our party now says that women shouldn't run for president. Literally feeding into that conservative narrative and her comments will be weaponized by them.

Do you realize that only three presidents have been born post WWII (just barely at that)? WWII ended 80 years ago.

All due respect to Harris, I think if she had been a little more like AOC she would have won the election.

If she had not walked out on stage holding hands with a Republican that had thrown her own lesbian sister under the bus for political gain, things would have turned out different.

If we had decided to forge a different way forward than giving Israel everything they wanted on Gaza, things would have turned out different.

The problem with those moves toward the center of the political spectrum and those brought up in traditional American elections, like president Obama and I assume Michelle would be, is they cannot see any other way forward and that is the problem.
We think of elections as we have been running them for decades and I think that is hurting our politics and brand. We keep moving to the center and courting Republicans and their perspectives because that is what we think people want and that just isn't true anymore.

Times are changing, baby boomers, generally speaking, have maybe a presidential election or two left in them (current average age of a baby boomer is 70 yrs old) and with all due respect, the world they want is no longer relevant.
I'm GenX and I barely consider my opinions relevant.

Our perspectives are weighed down with decades of trauma and lived experience that will no longer be what shapes politics for the next 100 years nor should it be.

I mean for goodness sake, terms like "communism" or "socialist" are couched as derogatory terms and it's truly bizarre that it's a thing. It's just not. No one cares.

We are still fighting religious indoctrination in our policy and politics when only 49% of the country still follows any religion per a recent Gallup poll.

We have state governments passing laws about LGBTQ people in their society, like trans athletes, when in most cases, they make up less than 5% of the population of their state and have no trans people participating in sports in their states.

Our politics are stuck in the past. We have to move forward and to move forward we need to stop pushing candidates that no longer represent the electorate in which they will run.
We need baby boomers and even GenXers to back away and give up the mantle of governance for the next generations.

If for no other reason than it being unfair for us to continue to shape a world we will no longer bare the responsibility for in our choices.