• opus86@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    I mean the Democrats can keep running women candidates, but it’s really not working at all. It’s mind boggling that people chose Trump over a woman again, but here we are. America has a severe daddy complex going on.

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      3 days ago

      Hillary won the popular vote. While America does have a sexism problem, I don’t think being a woman is why they lost. They lost because they were terrible candidates who were completely out of touch with what Americans want.

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      3 days ago

      I don’t think we’ve had enough women running in presidential elections to draw that conclusion. Sexism isn’t stopping women from winning congressional or mayoral seats. I suspect the women we’ve seen lose the presidential race have lost for the same reasons so many men have.

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        3 days ago

        The observable fact is that women have lost to a complete monster twice. People prefer Trump to a woman. I get Hillary a bit, but after Trumps first term, any warm body would do compared to this complete shit show.

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          2 days ago

          Agreed that after Trump’s first term, any other warm body would be electable. That’s how Biden won. IMO if it had been a woman instead of Biden, she still would have won.

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        4 days ago

        It’s an observable fact. The Democrats have lost when they have ran a woman against a monster.

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          3 days ago

          You’re begging the question. We are aware that they lost to Trump both times they ran a woman. I think that if they had ran a woman instead of Biden, and men instead of the women that ran, we’d’ve observed the same result.