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In reply to the discussion: A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]athena
(4,187 posts)We nominated a woman in a country that is so hatefully misogynistic that it can't even recognize its misogyny. We should have known the level of raw hatred that the candidacy of a smart, capable, and ambitious woman would induce in the populace. I predicted this when Hillary first decided to run. I knew that her campaign would bring all the misogynists out of the woodwork, and I was afraid she would lose the election as a result.
But go on believing that Hillary lost because of Hillary and that some other woman would easily have won.
You continue to miss my original point: it is not about what will happen four or eight years from now. It is about what will happen in the next four years. You appear not to have lived through eight years of W., or at least not paid attention. If it weren't for W., there would be no ISIS today. There would be no extreme right-wing movement in Western Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people would be alive who are dead today. Afghanistan and Iraq would not be a mess. The environment would be much healthier. The economy would be much better.
But who cares about all that, when you can run a sufficiently liberal white guy in four years?
Enjoy the next four years. I'm sure feeling right about Hillary not being the right candidate will make it sooo much better for you. The rest of us who are not white men are not so lucky as to be able to ignore what is happening in real time.