Manmademan
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You have no reason to believe this to be true.
I actually do, those things correlate pretty well and this is pretty easy to verify.
You are literally just assuming that Democrats can't be sexist.
no, I'm not. I'm saying that it is not possible that the decline in democratic votes can be attributed to sexism. it's simply too large, and exclusively on the democratic side for this to be plausible.
If this were true, we'd have had a woman president by now.
I've already addressed this. You can continue to ignore it, but it speaks more about you than it does about me.
Women only really reached parity with men- being accepted as naturally part of the workforce or naturally doing most of the same jobs men do in the late 80s or early 90s. prior to that it was impossible.
Running for president takes an astronomical amount of money, and a TON of political connections built over decades- Obama being the exception, but even then he had a lot of backing from people like Reid and Kennedy that felt that HE was the direction the party needed to go in, not Clinton. The dead earliest any woman could have plausibly run was 00 or 04. Hillary ran in 08- but lost out to a better candidate running a better campaign, NOT sexism.
And, strangely, the fact that a black man was elected, speaks nothing about the existence of sexism. Historically, black men have obtained political rights well in advance of women. If this goes the way of the vote, it will be another 50 years before a woman is President.
Historically black men and women are economically FAR worse off than white women, and this isn't up for debate. White women represent far, FAR more of america's fortune 500 CEOS, blacks have seen no progress. White women have equivalent legal representation to white men, black men are shot dead in the street for looking at a cop the wrong way.
Pretending that "oh, they have it just as bad, or women are behind where black men are!" displays a shockingly terrible ignorance of what systemic racism even is.
don't go this route, i don't want to derail the thread.
That being said, Obama didn't win because he was "the first black president." Obama won because he was a fantastic candidate running an aggressive campaign. Hillary is neither.