Thank you for saying it: Most Americans did not want a woman as president. Be it emasculation or female jealousy, in my opinion THAT is what this election was about. And that is why I am having such a difficult time.
I voted for Harris. Having said that, I believe that the state of the economy is a legitimate concern for many. My diabetic father has been struggling to afford groceries that are compatible with his condition, and the only policy issue he ever heard Harris talk about was abortion. Harris made the same mistake here that Hillary Clinton made in Pennsylvania way back when. Pennsylvania's coal miners didn't have a clear sense that Clinton understood or cared about their problems. In the same vein, while the restoration of Roe would restore its benefits to women and society as a whole, abortion protections for women don't help my father treat the life threatening illness he lives with. Trump laid out his rationale for tariffs, getting the law of supply and demand exactly backwards as he talked, but that was more than my father ever heard from Harris on the subject. My father is seventy years old. Abortion is going to be a back burner issue for him compared to his more immediate problems. He never got the sense that Harris understood or cared about the issues that affect him most. I am horrified that Trump won, but misogyny isn't entirely to blame here.
It doesn't sound like your father's vote was ever a get for her. Talk all you want about literally anything, but if your administration is running things and people worry that they can't afford to live, good luck getting them to hear you. Which is why I agree that misogyny isn't entirely to blame and, in retrospect, I don't think this race was winnable by a member of the sitting administration regardless of race or gender. I don't agree that she didn't address grocery prices or tariffs, however. She did, she just didn't tell egregious lies. Your father and you weren't listening if you think the only policy issue she ever talked about was abortion. There are many like you, and that was her biggest problem.
As the very first sentence in my post above indicates, I voted for Harris. If you recall the Simpsons episode in which the power plant replaced Homer with a brick dangling from a lever, I would have voted for the brick had the Democrats seen fit to run it for President. As such, I did not pay close attention to what Harris said, because I was voting against Trump. However, whenever I saw Harris on social media, she was never talking about policy. Mostly it was talking about running an energetic and joyful campaign and condemning the Republicans as weird. That's fine; she had my vote already. My father is a fair man. If whatever Harris said about the issues he cares about had reached him, he would have considered it. The Democrats do a poor job of connecting with people like my father, failing to meet them where they live, so to speak. Hillary Clinton may have cared about the plight of Pennsylvania's coal miners, but she was unable to convey that in a manner that they understood. If Harris cared about my father's issues, she didn't say anything about them where he lives.
You make a good point about he uphill battle the current administration faced in this election.
This is a belated and somewhat anti-climatic comment, perhaps, but leaving this unsaid was bothering me. My father confirmed over the Christmas holiday that he didn't vote in the last election. Not for Harris. Not for Trump. Not for anyone. I doubt that he has ever voted in his life. If I had been able to convince him to vote for Harris, it would have made little difference. Trump carried his state by a three to one margin. Trump carried my state by a two to one margin. That is how elections go in flyover country.
You know Ms. Rosenberg: I am white, male, straight, in 2015 I was 56 years old in 2015, not successful either financially or romantically and lacking a college degree. In other words, a prime target for the Trump cult.
But I didn't fall victim to the Trump cult. Because I knew damn well what Trump represented. And it WASN'T the "working class". And I resisted Fox News and other right wing hate media. Why? Because I believed in helping EVERYONE regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation.
I was raised to believe in the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. And his second commandment was "Love thy neighbor". NO qualifications. Am I perfect in that? No. But to paraphrase Gandhi "I like your Christ. But I don't like your Christians".
What do the following people have in common: Grey DeLisle,Carlos Alazraqui, Mark Hamill, Cree Summer, Maddie Taylor and yourself (I am sure I am leaving out at least 10 more people)?
1)they all publicly supported Harris
2) they are all in Tara Strong's cricle of friends.
You know who didn't publicly support Harris? Tara Strong herself. She has in the past been a public defender of a woman's right to choose and LGBT+ rights but she was silent on both issues when it came to Americans. Her influence was sorely missed.
If you had made the case for hardcore Israel supporters to vote Harris, you may have gotten her on board.
Thank you for saying it: Most Americans did not want a woman as president. Be it emasculation or female jealousy, in my opinion THAT is what this election was about. And that is why I am having such a difficult time.
Right?? That was actually the reason. I do not buy the economic anxiety excuse. And, yes, that is also why I am struggling with this.
I voted for Harris. Having said that, I believe that the state of the economy is a legitimate concern for many. My diabetic father has been struggling to afford groceries that are compatible with his condition, and the only policy issue he ever heard Harris talk about was abortion. Harris made the same mistake here that Hillary Clinton made in Pennsylvania way back when. Pennsylvania's coal miners didn't have a clear sense that Clinton understood or cared about their problems. In the same vein, while the restoration of Roe would restore its benefits to women and society as a whole, abortion protections for women don't help my father treat the life threatening illness he lives with. Trump laid out his rationale for tariffs, getting the law of supply and demand exactly backwards as he talked, but that was more than my father ever heard from Harris on the subject. My father is seventy years old. Abortion is going to be a back burner issue for him compared to his more immediate problems. He never got the sense that Harris understood or cared about the issues that affect him most. I am horrified that Trump won, but misogyny isn't entirely to blame here.
It doesn't sound like your father's vote was ever a get for her. Talk all you want about literally anything, but if your administration is running things and people worry that they can't afford to live, good luck getting them to hear you. Which is why I agree that misogyny isn't entirely to blame and, in retrospect, I don't think this race was winnable by a member of the sitting administration regardless of race or gender. I don't agree that she didn't address grocery prices or tariffs, however. She did, she just didn't tell egregious lies. Your father and you weren't listening if you think the only policy issue she ever talked about was abortion. There are many like you, and that was her biggest problem.
As the very first sentence in my post above indicates, I voted for Harris. If you recall the Simpsons episode in which the power plant replaced Homer with a brick dangling from a lever, I would have voted for the brick had the Democrats seen fit to run it for President. As such, I did not pay close attention to what Harris said, because I was voting against Trump. However, whenever I saw Harris on social media, she was never talking about policy. Mostly it was talking about running an energetic and joyful campaign and condemning the Republicans as weird. That's fine; she had my vote already. My father is a fair man. If whatever Harris said about the issues he cares about had reached him, he would have considered it. The Democrats do a poor job of connecting with people like my father, failing to meet them where they live, so to speak. Hillary Clinton may have cared about the plight of Pennsylvania's coal miners, but she was unable to convey that in a manner that they understood. If Harris cared about my father's issues, she didn't say anything about them where he lives.
You make a good point about he uphill battle the current administration faced in this election.
This is a belated and somewhat anti-climatic comment, perhaps, but leaving this unsaid was bothering me. My father confirmed over the Christmas holiday that he didn't vote in the last election. Not for Harris. Not for Trump. Not for anyone. I doubt that he has ever voted in his life. If I had been able to convince him to vote for Harris, it would have made little difference. Trump carried his state by a three to one margin. Trump carried my state by a two to one margin. That is how elections go in flyover country.
You know Ms. Rosenberg: I am white, male, straight, in 2015 I was 56 years old in 2015, not successful either financially or romantically and lacking a college degree. In other words, a prime target for the Trump cult.
But I didn't fall victim to the Trump cult. Because I knew damn well what Trump represented. And it WASN'T the "working class". And I resisted Fox News and other right wing hate media. Why? Because I believed in helping EVERYONE regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation.
I was raised to believe in the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. And his second commandment was "Love thy neighbor". NO qualifications. Am I perfect in that? No. But to paraphrase Gandhi "I like your Christ. But I don't like your Christians".
What do the following people have in common: Grey DeLisle,Carlos Alazraqui, Mark Hamill, Cree Summer, Maddie Taylor and yourself (I am sure I am leaving out at least 10 more people)?
1)they all publicly supported Harris
2) they are all in Tara Strong's cricle of friends.
You know who didn't publicly support Harris? Tara Strong herself. She has in the past been a public defender of a woman's right to choose and LGBT+ rights but she was silent on both issues when it came to Americans. Her influence was sorely missed.
If you had made the case for hardcore Israel supporters to vote Harris, you may have gotten her on board.