The Way Forward

uh 1. Mexico is a very old country. This is their first female president. Wow. Are they more intelligent and advanced than we are? Well, maybe. But I think we can catch up.

2. We have had males only in the presidency for 250 years because American women only achieved the right to vote in the first half of the 20th century. They had to fight for it and crush the nay sayers, including women nay sayers. Then we had to create another mass movement in the second half of the twentieth century for Equal rights In all other phases of our life including reproductive rights. Now we have fought our way into elected offices and started making things better for all Americans. We are electing more women in local and state offices and moving toward parity . { Getting parity in elective offices was what brought Mexico to elect a woman president.)

Male only rule is never going to get us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. Setting up some unofficial qualification for president such as stating that our party should only run a man is just divisive and demoralizing for voters.

Trump was just crediting Musk with helping him win due to Musk’s knowledge of those Pennsylvania voting machines. Even if Trump was telling another lie, we should have absolutely no expectation that 2028 will not be rigged. In fact we should have no expectation that 2026 will not be rigged. Spending time and energy trying to keep half of our potential candidates out of the running is like shooting ourselves in the foot

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