Putin has finally won
One side of America now hates and distrusts the other side that now anything that ever happen will now be suspect as partisan foul play.
This has been brought to you directly by Putin and their fake online social media accounts. The division has been brewing in this country for a while now, and today we got so see the end result.
I wish there was an off switch to the internet. Which is the bitter hypocrisy of this post.
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It's not that we don't share all the political faults of men, but all the ways politics has gone very wrong in this era are stronger in men. Greater involvement by women in public discourse and policy is going to help restore a better balance.
Eventually change will inevitably involve backlash and power struggle, though. There's already great resentment and anxiety at the continued empowerment of women. On the more civil end, we'd better expect lots and lots of articles and panels bemoaning the feminization of America.
Can't wait. 
do need enough women to be able to get pissy and demanding. Threaten to form their own caucuses. 
I noticed the senate judiciary committee's actually at the forefront of senatorial women's rights with 4 out of 21 members women, all Democrats of course. Most committees don't have more than 1 or 2 at most.
They already caucus. We're doomed in November. 
See the Executive Summary:
http://cawp.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/resources/representationmatters.pdf
At the time of our study — the CAWP Study of Women in the 114th Congress—only 20 women served in the Senate and 84 in the House. Although their numbers were small, even more problematic for their influence was their party distribution and institutional position. The presence of women was much more heavily concentrated in the party out of power. Women constituted fewer than 10 percent of all Republican legislators across the two chambers, with six women senators and 22 representatives. Women were much better represented on the other side of the aisle, constituting about one-third of all Democrats, with 14 women senators and 62 representatives.
Yet what we find in our research — based on interviews with 83 of the 108 women who served as Senators, Representatives, and Delegates — is that the women on both sides of the aisle in the 114th Congress very much believe that their presence and their voices mattered, and they provided considerable evidence of achievements despite the overall environment of gridlock and party polarization in which they operated. They shared example after example of working on bipartisan legislation with other members of Congress, both women and men. A majority of the women we interviewed believe that women are more likely than their male counterparts to work across party lines. Large numbers of congresswomen express the belief that women are more consensual and collaborative than their male colleagues, and in interview after interview — in different ways using different words—they explained that women are more results-oriented, more likely to emphasize achievement over ego, and more concerned with achieving policy outcomes rather than receiving publicity or credit. Our interviews revealed that a shared work style, common experiences as women, and personal relationships forged in single-sex spaces within Congress enable women to work together across party lines. Women of color—who constituted a record number of members in the 114th Congress—emphasized the significance of their presence in Congress and the imperative of including the perspectives of women of color and minority communities more generally in the policymaking process.
Women numerous enough to set agendas, not pride themselves on affecting them.
Big-stick wielders, their support group function left behind.
It is now being exploited by old school KGB. 
publicized in every newspaper and on every cable and TV station, and only 225 white nationalists came?
Charlottesville was not what people imagine. The vast majority of the crowds there that day came out of civic duty to reject. Succeeding rallies have been lucky to draw a couple dozen, and those typically came with the marchers. I live in the deep south, and these people aren't welcome here. KKK chapters in our and a nearby county had to join together a few years ago to scrape together enough members to hold a meeting. Don't even know if that succeeded, haven't heard anything.
Don't let your fears warp your thinking by causing you to only look for and inflate dangers.
From the beginning we have been in the midst of a rejection, a backlash against a genuine white nationalist backlash to too much change, but it's been under-noticed because alarm at and sensationalizing of the surfacing of this evil has focused attention on it. You probably haven't noticed that there has far less of this acting out in 2018 than during its high after the election of Trump.
