• JHRD1880@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I genuinely think I have a crush on her. She consistently smacks these GOP losers around and does it with a smile.

    ‘The girls are fighting’

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      13 hours ago

      She is awesome - but I hope they don’t intend on running her for president - not because I think she would do any less than a fantastic job, but because we have proven even women in this country won’t vote for a woman president. Meanwhile we have children in 5th grade drama running things. “But a woman would be emotional”.

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        10 hours ago

        Honestly, I’m pretty tired of establishment telling us who we’ll vote for.

        Not very long ago America was never going to vote for a black man.

        Bernie could never beat Trump… for some reason.

        I just don’t want progressives to do the work of conservatives.

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        12 hours ago

        Sounds like DNC logic - "Let’s not allow anyone who isn’t a right-leaning, but plausibly-moderate, cis-white person to run. We don’t want to divide our support. 🤦‍♂️

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        12 hours ago

        I think we need to wait and see how things shake out. If she can demonstrate broad based support then why not run her.

        If it’s only lefties who love her, then she’s not the right choice.

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          12 hours ago

          I’d love to agree with you but look how it’s worked out - the two times the orange idiot has been elected he is running against ladies. It seems an insurmountable hill for the general public to be ok with a woman president

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            7 hours ago

            Yeah. There’s a correlation vs causation problem here that I don’t really have the answers to.

            In other words I think that’s reductive.

            Hillary was Hillary and didn’t take Trump seriously.

            Kamala was run without much planning and forethought.

            AOC might be a woman, and I take your point that may not be in her favor, but she has many virtues that may outweigh that disadvantage.

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            10 hours ago

            Was it because they were woman or because they were just the same old Democrats people were tired of? You know, the left candidates that are actually right leaning, the establishment. Trying to appeal to the other side while forgetting their own base like a parent giving all of its attention to the one child who constantly does mischief while the others feel left out.