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Nah. She's politically what the country needs, but get serious, no way will America ever vote a woman as President.
We should let the Democratic party choose a person through a primary to run for president and then allow that person to run for president.
If a woman makes it through that process on her own merits then the party will probably vote for her.
If on the other hand a woman is selected because she's a woman who will cooperate with the donors and they decide to skip that process or subvert it in some way then you probably won't win.
Why would anyone do that when you can just complain about needing change, but do absolutely nothing to support or advocate for it! Or better yet, you can just start applying uninformed purity tests to progressive candidates. "She wants to implement the change I want to see, but because I don't understand how legislation is passed in the US, I'll accuse her of giving money to Israel's occupation, and say she's complicit in genocide" - average internet leftist.
Michelle Obama would be president right now if dems wanted to win more than they want to platform fascists.
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/only-michelle-obama-bests-trump-alternative-biden-2024
Stranger things have happened. They elected a black guy for one.
And 30% of the fucking country proceeded to lose their gotdamn minds about it.
While another 30% declared we had "defeated racism" and decided it's okay to halt all efforts to remediate past racial bias or prevent future racial bias in the system.
Sorry; unmedicated.
I hope you are wrong (and I think I might agree with you - I'm dubious about enough Americans being able to be man enough to vote for a woman, so I guess that means I hope we are both wrong), but I'm also bracing myself for the absolute tidal wave of Murc's Law that will follow in an attempt to excuse all of the worst tendencies of the hard right if we were to elect a woman that is also a POC.
If the conservatives go for someone even far worse than Taco (and face it: they ain't going back to the methadone of someone like a Romney or a W or a McCain after they have been mainlining the China White of pure Taco for over a decade now. If anything, they need to up the dosages of the hatred and the grievances.), there will be lots of analysis about how the liberals made them do it, because, look, what choice did they even have? The liberals elected not only a woman, but another POC! It's almost like the liberals learned nothing from electing Obama for two terms!