Posted on 03/05/2020 5:00:31 PM PST by Morgana
Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the 2020 presidential race March 5, and in that instant one could feel a great disturbance in the feminist force, as if a million voices cried out in terror that once again a woman was unfairly blocked out of her shot.
Medium’s Jessica Valenti, a radical feminist with a history of blaming the world’s problems on the patriarchy, let out a loud lamentation about the Senator from Massachusetts’s untimely fate, arguing that her lack of success in the race was the fault of “America’s sexism.” Oh this should be good.
Valenti had apparently staked her mental well-being on the fact that a calculating, unlikable female candidate, with a penchant for lying about her background to get ahead, would beat Donald Trump, just because he’s brutish and she’s a progressive. Too bad.
What happened to Warren was “enough to make me feel, well, despairing: that we had the candidate of a lifetime — someone with the energy, vision, and follow-through to lead the country out of our nightmarish era — and that the media and voters basically outright erased and ignored her,” she wrote.
The media ignored her? She may be the worst candidate ever to be relentlessly puffed by the fourth estate. But Valenti isn’t interested in talking substance but transfixed on the issue being sexism and she won’t budge. “Don’t tell me this isn’t about sexism. I’ve been around too long for that,” she insisted.
This is a textbook example of the limits of identity politics.
If you supported Warren just because she is a woman, do you have to overlook her lying about having Native American heritage (while calling Trump a racist for poking her about it)? What about her claim that she was fired from a teaching job for being pregnant? Or the one about her children going to public school in order to push her proposals against charter schools? Or when she lied about Bernie Sanders telling her that a woman couldn’t be president yet? That doesn’t begin to address her class warfare rhetoric and ruinous economic ideas.
Valenti refused to see any of that though. She doubled down and even complained about sexism shown towards her for supporting Warren. She wrote, “Even just supporting Warren has come with an unbearable amount of misogynist condescension. I’m tired of being told that I’m a single-issue voter because I care about a candidate’s gender, even if it’s not the only thing I care about.”
But here she is complaining that Warren lost because she’s a woman!
Valenti wrote that she wants her daughter to believe that a woman could be president: “I want her to be able to hold on to that optimism because the truth is that I’m fresh out of hope to give her.” Wow. How about teaching her the joy that comes from knowing anti-capitalist liars don’t get too far in an American presidential race? That’s a healthy perspective if ever there was one.
Strange. I don’t remember these people talking about misogyny when Palin ran as a VP candidate.
President Trump had never held office before but he had a track record of getting things done. The other Republican candidates just didn't inspire Republican voters. It helped that Hillary insulted most of the Republican and Independent base when she labeled us “Deplorables.” That was better than any “get out the vote” drive Trump could have done.
Hello earth to Jessica...she isn’t the nominee because your fellow rats did not vote for her....and she wasn’t worth voting for as a lying cheating harpy....and most of the rat voters are women and or black or feminist ‘men’....does that tell you anything Jess???
Take it up with your fellow "woke" crowd.
...how's life after hitting the wall?
“I know,” Warren responded before getting a bit choked up. “One of the hardest parts of this is all those pinky promises, and all those little girls who are gonna have to wait four more years. That’s gonna be hard.”
Sexism did not do Warren in, it was racism. The fact that she’s a full blooded Native American did it. /s/
Jessica doesn’t look that bad. In some pics she looks pretty hot. The problem is that the rare feminist who is pretty always ends up looking like Maude.
“...despairing: that we had the candidate of a lifetime “
I would prefer if they looked like Adrienne Barbeau.
DEMOCRAT sexism.
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Carly Fiorina would be President if not for sexism.
Don’t give a damn if Liz is a female. She is totally unlikable. A shrew and a socialist and a liar.
But hey, ya want to say she lost due to being a female?
Fine.
Idiot.
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