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Jan W. Evans's avatar

A painfully astute article. This country has denied the Presidency to two qualified women - Clinton and Harris. Both defeated by Donald Trump, the least qualified person imaginable. Is it the campaigns, the candidates? No! I fear it is us as Americans!

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Patricia Jaeger's avatar

Excellent essay and I can't wait for Part II. You wondered why the questions of race and gender have not really been discussed in regards to the 2024 election even though we all know why. Most of the people who are on talk shows, the people who interview them, the people who write the columns, and essays about why Democrats lost the election, the owners of legacy media are white men who don't think about or write about race and gender because they don't have to think about it or recognize the consequences of systemic racism and misogyny. They also ignore it because it's very difficult to write acknowledge and write about it. Heaven forbid someone label them as "woke". They also can't point to polls because who's going to admit that they're racist and/or misogynistic. How would get to that data?

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