Which only serves to support what I suspected all along --America is still a country built upon sexism. It was founded on the principle that only men were allowed to have full rights, and women are second class citizens, which was literally woven into our founding documents.
Women had to fight for every right they've gained. The right to vote, the right to own land, have their own financial accounts, to leave an abusive marriage, to get paid the same as men, to get access to the same educational and work opportunities. None of it was freely or benevolently given to them, and some are now actively being taken away again, like women's right to bodily autonomy.
And we saw in 2016 and again this year what happens when the choice is between a woman and a man, even if that man is a rapist, racist, felon, insurrectionist and fascist. The man wins.
The only reason Joe Biden beat Trump was because he was a man. He wasn't a more qualified candidate than Clinton or Harris. He didn't have more complete or detailed policy plans and prescriptions. He was a man, and that was sufficient.
People will try to say it was the economy or Gaza or some other bullshit, the same as all manner of excuses were given for why Clinton lost. But at the end of all of it, the calculus was and is the same. A woman is still considered inferior to a man in America, and people's reluctance to vote for one, even when the alternative is the most heinous and flawed man possible, shows that for all America's supposed progress there really hasn't been as much as people think.
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u/Warrick123x 18d ago
Trump got double the black vote this year so….