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In reply to the discussion: Kamala [View all]pinkstarburst
(2,049 posts)She was deeply unpopular in the primaries and that never improved while she was vice president. She had to run a short campaign and that was Joe's fault for not deciding not to run again after the midterms, absolutely. But the fact remains that America had a chance to weigh in on her, and they went with an 80 year old completely incompetent person instead.
We can say "oh, maybe they've learned their lesson by now" but if that is the case, we can apply that logic to ANY candidate out there, including Pete Buttigieg. If America is too backwards to elect a gay man, I've got news, they're not electing a Black woman either, and we need to stop kidding ourselves about that, since some of us seem to be on the "Pete will never get elected, but Kamala sure has a fighting chance!" train. Either we think our candidates have to be all straight christian white men from here on out, or we don't. Kamala isn't the exception to the rule.