• AlreadyDefederated@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      Instead of AOC (however much I love her and her message) I’m thinking Whitmer would be better and has a great track record. Walz would be stronger than AOC, if they let him hammer 'em with his wit. Andy Beshear would totally freak the GOP out and would be a great choice.

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      9 months ago

      But we also may not have midterms at this point.

      I suspect we will continue to have elections, but they will strategically select specific races throughout the country to tamper with in favor of the GOP, and they’ll increase the number of rigged races with each election until our entire electoral process has been captured and we end up with something akin to Russia or Venezuela. We’ll hold elections, but they’ll be a complete sham. We’ll (officially) be a one-party state with one other party of controlled opposition to give people the illusion of choice.

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      9 months ago

      AOC might have a chance

      We should really stop this.

      I like AOC.

      I also realize we just elected a rapist felon traitor insurrectionist and declined the last 2 females who ran for president, despite being WAY more qualified than a felon rapist traitor insurrectionist.

      This is not the time and not the country to elect a female president, especially one so “green”. If we try to push AOC, we’re going to lose, again.

      This is not how I want things to be. It’s simply an observation of this nation and how extremely unlikely it is to elect a woman president. It’ll be Bernie all over again, but probably even more of a shutout.

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        9 months ago

        Do not blame it on being a woman, statistically they win the same rate as male candidates just run far less often.

        It’s just being sexist for someone else’s sake.

        This is not the time to run status quo and low effort candidates but loud and effective ones which we have a shortage of in the DNC.

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          9 months ago

          Do not blame it on being a woman

          I’m not. I’m blaming it on the American electorate, which is what I stated in my comment that you didn’t read thoroughly.

          statistically they win the same rate as male candidates

          Not for president they don’t, and if you read my comment thoroughly, you’d know that’s what I was talking about. Open your eyes bud. It was a woman or a felon rapist traitor who ALREADY FAILED ONCE AS PRESIDENT. We chose the rapist instead of the woman. Welcome to American reality.

          And it isn’t just that she’s a woman. She’s a woman AND extremely liberal. That combo simply doesn’t work for a lot of the American electorate.

          This is not the time to run status quo

          I didn’t say status quo. Did you read my comment at all? You can run all sorts of people that aren’t status quo and also not a woman. I WANT A WOMAN PRESIDENT. Spoiler alert, it ain’t happening anytime soon in America. But if you’d like to ignore reality and lose again…that’s your right as a voter. That kind of behavior is why we are where we are.

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            The American electorate is not who is writing your comments.

            You are distinctly ignoring other critiques to focus on gender as the main component. Do not assign your own bias to everyone else. We do not all think as you do and can’t be blamed for what you think to be true.

            Statistically across the world women win elections at the same rate as men.

            Support a female president you want then instead of telling them all that none of them can win because of their gender. It makes you sound like the sexist.