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AOC accuses Trump of trying to usher in ‘age of authoritarianism’ at Munich conference
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Sounds pretty Presidential to me
She's running in 2028 for sure.
As much as I, a european, would absolutely love for USA to elect her, I don't think there's any way she wins.
Too many racist and mysogonist cunts around who can't fathom a world where it isn't some ancient white dude in power. Sure Obama won, and look at the regression the right wing (and also the dems for that matter) has seen because so many people had a fucking aneurysm over a black dude in a tan suit eating mustard.
Sadly, most men, despite their politics, will never vote for a woman.
Edit: Downvote reality all you want, the (almost) endless stream of white males elected president doesn't care about your feelings.
They do in every other country. Heard the same about Mexico for years.
We just elected our firstwoman as governor in VA and she won by a larger margin than any other Democrat since the 70s
Sick of the whining that America won't elect a woman when Clinton won the popular vote and Kamala replaced a guy with a 37% approval rating, yet ran on his platform anyway... and that was in the middle of massive inflation. Your sample size is 2.
Clinton would've been president if it weren't for that dumbass James Comey
Ah yes, the CIA Democrat that had no primary opponent.
It's actually more than 2 on a historical scale. I'm not saying a woman cannot or should not be president, I'm saying that the odds aren't in favor.
If you needed a lawyer for some reason, would you refuse to hire a woman because you thought your jury might have misogynists on it?
Apples and oranges.
I'd be willing to bet the problem has more to do with the shit sandwich of corporate-whore-elite neoliberal-lite than it has to do with sexism.
People all over the developed world are hungry for real change and leadership; most are just too ignorant and propagandized by an oligarch-controlled media to know what would improve their lives. All they know is that they don't like the path the world is taking. The vast majority of people born in the last 50 years do not want more of the last 50 years.
I think the issue is that running this piss poor canidates doesn't encourage the voter base to vote and there will always be a percentage of the population that will not vote for a woman.
When elections are decided by a couple of percentage points and you run a bad canidate then the sexists get to decide the outcome.
The elections would not be decided by a couple of percentage points if the Dems just ran with popular policies. Bernie Sanders has clearly shown time and time again that even people as far right as Fox News fans would support him because of his progressive policies. Zohran Mamdani won despite active hostility from Dem Leadership and his opponent getting billions of dollars of support because of his progressive polices.
What this tells me is that if the Dem party threw their weight behind progressive candidates, they would do FDR numbers. In fact, it seems obvious that FDR doing progressive politics is the reason FDR did FDR numbers.
Is this not the logical conclusion my comment?
I swear some people read comments only to try and manufacture an argument
Kamala and Hillary were bad candidates and not progressive. I still voted for them, but I'm sure a lot of people were turned off by their politics and/or gender.