Platner's "Frat Boy" Crap Is Why We Should Elect More Women

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33. Kyrsten Sinema sends her regards

Politicians that lie to get elected is a fairly gender neutral phenomenon. A bisexual woman that was electable out of a red state seemed like a pretty good target candidate for the Democrats, until she wasn't.

Attacking all men has not served the Democratic Party well in the last 10 years, even with women, so why don't we just take candidates as they are, vet them, and choose the best one? We get in trouble when we go too deep into the symbolic, like the blue collar oyster farmer (I suspect every aspect of his background will turn out to be at least 50% bullshit) rather than figure out what the candidate actually believes in.

We also fell for the MAGA trap of demonizing expertise and experience with Platner. I wouldn't mind a man or woman that started local, was elected to state rep or state senate, and then wanted to graduate to federal office. That person likely represents their constituents well, has a long track record to vet, and knows how to get things done.