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I'd love it, but we need a sure win this time. Not getting a 50 year old white dude will make it harder. We've tried a shitty blonde, an old guy, and a black woman. We need someone who will take votes from the red.
As inappropriate and watered down as it sounds, I honestly don't think this country is going to vote in a female president this decade. Race plays a part too, but I honestly think that this country is more sexist than it is racist when it comes to presidential voting. It's partially a gut feelings, but I think gender played a bigger role than many people think in the 2016 and 2024 elections. As messed up as it sounds, I think Bernie POTUS with AOC VP would stand a better chance of winning right now as opposed to the other way around. Even with all of the socialist/communist boogie-man bullshit that Bernie gets thrown at him.
I kinda agree, but crucially I think it's less that the country isn't ready to vote for a female president, it's that after Kamala and Hillary, the Dems think the issue is with them being women.
Also the republicans would have no issue voting in a woman if it was one of their own.
And also, Bernie is way too old to be president. I think the most realistic thing would be to put a """moderate""" dem on the ticket to help ease the pearl clutching from corporate Dems you would get by running AOC so someone like Waltz or Newsom.
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Love the optimism that there will be elections in the US in the foreseeable future!
I don't see anyone better for the job.
Certainly not that transphobic piece of shit from California, that's for damn sure.
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I vote yes.
While I think AOC would be better in the Senate for at least a term or two, it would take a REALLY good candidate for me to not vote for her in the primary (... if we have voting by then). She gives a shit, she cares, and she understands she can't run the entire government by herself. Although I am still not sure if this country could ever elect a woman to POTUS.
That said... after all the Platner shit (amongst other things), maybe it would benefit everyone if Sanders sat down and stopped talking. His endorsement just makes me wonder if AOC secretly has a fucking anima sola tattoo on her back or some insanity.
I’m surprised how many people are so optimistic that there will ever be free and fair elections again in the US. Let alone there being a single democrat out there that can or will do anything good if elected. I’d like to share some optimism, but I just can’t see it.
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