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America will not vote for a female democrat
Stop repeating failure
Wow the gross pigs are really out in force today.
Accepting the reality of the nation you live in doesn't make you a gross pig.
Wanting a winning strategy because continually losing has gotten us to the point where we're losing rights and our Constitution has become toilet paper doesn't make you a gross pig.
The last two highly qualified women were beaten by a low IQ felon rapist pedo. Trying to elect women to the presidency in this country is a losing strategy and that's not really up for debate at this point. We aren't that country yet. Clearly.
HiGlY qUaLiFiEd you neoliberals will blame anything on your losses except shit policy.
Until they do.
https://xkcd.com/1122/
...does xkcd ever miss???
Hillary won the popular vote so she lost because you have a shitty system , not that she is a woman
Hillary smelled like status quo and behaved imperiously. Thats why she lost.
Because we lost with two poor candidates, we shouldn't try with a good one?
What makes AOC a good candidate? Because you like the things she says? Lot of people liked what Bernie said. Still lost.
There's a little more to winning a presidential election than saying things a significant number of people like.
She is a woman.
She is not white.
She is younger than any president, ever.
She doesn't have a particularly impressive political resume yet, which still matters to liberal voters.
She is FAR left, which scares a lot of moderates.
These are all things that DON'T make her a good candidate in the United States of America.
Here we go with the MAGA disparagement of any women who shows political potential. Start tearing them down early, so when the time comes that they run for president, you can fall back on calling all those old lies her "reputation." 30 years of defamation paid off with Hillary, so now it's Standard Operating Procedure.
Why it won't work on AOC:
She is super intelligent, and we need a lot more of that at the top.
She has been incredibly effective in Congress, not just for her constituents, but for the nation.
She is fearless, something we need after so much cowardice from both Democrats and MAGAs.
She will stand up to MAGA, and punish them.
She is incorruptible.
Her constituents love her, and will support her all the way, and she has plenty of national support as well. She's one of the most popular members of Congress, and is considered the Progressive successor to Bernie, by Bernie himself.
AOC questions Michael Cohen
This was her first appearance before Congress, questioning Michael Cohen just before he went to prison for being Trump's Fixer. He wanted to tell his story, but was visibly frustrated at the usual posturing and bloviating by the panel.
Then AOC was called, and she warned Cohen that she'd be moving fast. She started firing questions, and he answered them, naming names. By the time her five minutes was over, she had all the information necessary for Leticia James to file charges that led to Trump being found guilty of 34 felonies.
Nobody else has been able to make anything stick, but in her debut appearance in front of Congress, AOC hit Trump harder than anyone ever has. It is a HUGE mistake to underestimate her.
Thats who I want for president.
yea! because it wasn’t betrayal of the left base, and kowtowing to the establishment, or the botched run for president or the scandals. it was because she was a woman, right.
getting real sick of these garbage people
America isn't mature enough to elect a female president
Add to this at the next election the republicans will have CBS,CNN,Fox, all the social media platforms, all the AI platforms
It won't just be this person and their ideas versus the other guys it will be that guy plus social media, AI and the news networks
It's almost an impossible task
America isn't going to swing from an extreme right wing government to a liberal female democrat no matter how much you want it to or even whether it's time or whether it's the right thing
The goal has to be to win an election
Or you get four years of Peter theils marionette and palantir running every aspect of the us government
same thing was said by racists about a black president. turns out if you field a not shit candidate it doesn’t matter. Harris polled to win against trump, so she has the numbers to possibly win by all counts. too bad she snatched failure from the jaws of victory.
i am so sick of people pretending that the loss was because of the candidates gender when they ran a terrible candidate after dragging their feet on joe biden after knowing he was incompetent, at the fourth quarter, skipping a primary, backing both an unpopular genocide, and pushing connections with the establishment. i don’t think there was much she could have done worse. and yet she almost won.
Bingo.
Yup. You don't win elections on idealism alone. If you did, Bernie Sanders would probably be president right now.
DING DING. There's WAY too much at stake to keep swinging and missing.
If you don't think a SIGNIFICANT number of people in this country simply won't vote for a woman, especially in the geographical areas that matter, you don't understand the country you live in or how presidential elections work.