All in Due Time
Filed under: Russia
Some women are getting annoyed by the fact that Hillary Clinton appears to be going down in flames because women won't support her.
I'm not concerned, for two reasons.
First, the fault isn't that women don't support Hillary, who's a bad candidate. The fault is that we didn't insist on more than one female candidate in the primaries, didn't organize and support such candidates from both parties from the beginning. In fact, I think Hillary should have been rejected immediately by all female voters, simply because she was attempting to ride her husband's coattails. If women created a huge pot of campaign cash available to female contenders from both parties, we'd have more applicants to choose from than we could count -- contenders who were self-made leaders deserving of power. So it's clear we need to learn a bit more about power before we take it.
Second, and more importantly, black men got the vote long before women of any color did -- a full half-century before. So it's only natural that they would have a major-party candidate for president before women would get one. All in due time. Women are slowly coming to dominate American society, from schoolgirls on the Internet to university classrooms to corporate boardrooms, and they will inexorably seize the White House as well.
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