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I’m 71 and was 9 when Kennedy was assassinated. Who exactly are they expecting to find as first-hand witnesses?
February 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Oh and while i'm on the misogyny beat: www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
JW: Harris lost not because Democrats switched sides, but because too many Democrats did not vote at all. And why do you think that was? SP: It’s remarkable to me how little consideration this gets in the post-election analysis by supposedly smart people: the reality of sexism in general, and of misogynoir in particular. Trump’s run three times. Twice against a woman. Once against a man. We’ve had 47 presidents in the United States. Every single one of them has been a man. I mean, how much longer of a data set do we need, to conclude that there’s something baked in around people’s conceptions of what leadership looks like and who the president should be? And so there’s been very little ability or analysis of actually trying to get at that data set in reality. I will say that, while the voter decline was significant overall, much of that decline actually happened in the blue states, frankly. And it’s notable that in four of the seven battleground states the Democratic vote went up, and most particularly, in Georgia and North Carolina. The Georgia situation, which I know a lot about because I’ve been on the Stacey Abrams bandwagon for over a decade and have seen this process, it feels very much like 2018, where Stacey almost doubled the Democratic vote from 2014 to 2018. But the Republican vote was even bigger than that. I really feel it’s a fundamental dynamic of people saying, ‘Hell no. We are not having this Black woman as our leader. We’re going to get off the couch. We’re going to come out of the woodwork to vote against her.’ And I feel that’s what happened for Kamala as well in Georgia and in North Carolina in particular.
December 14, 2024 at 8:54 PM
vicki-edge.bsky.social
Thank you for your encouragement and modeling. This introvert appreciates it, and you!
November 18, 2024 at 1:26 AM