Younger men threw their support behind Donald Trump in 2024 after favoring Biden in 2020
The United States is still not ready for a female president after more than a century of unsuccessful campaigns for the White House, according to former First Lady Michelle Obama.
“As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” Obama said earlier this month in a live conversation with actor Tracee Ellis Ross that was published Friday.
“That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying,” she said. “You’re not ready for a woman. You are not. So don’t waste my time.”
Who criticizing AOC? What’s to criticize?
Uh, basically the entire right and a good chunk of the center
I’m not saying their criticisms are justified, it’s all a bunch of vapid shit and straight up lies. She’s too young, she’s too sassy, she was a bartender, she’s a communist, whatever. None of it matters, even when what they’re saying isn’t just made up. But it’s out there, a lot. I’m actually kind of jealous of you for not being exposed to enough right wing sentiment to have experienced it.
Look, I love the theory kiddies for the scholarship and devotion. But you have to spend at least a little time considering sociology and rhetoric, learning how the average person actually responds to stimuli.
The bourgeoisie owns the media. The majority of the proletariat mostly consume corporate media. If I could make a genie wish that everyone woke up tomorrow with perfect rational faculties, to educate themselves and act in their own best interests, we could have a bloodless revolution by next week.
But I don’t have a magic lamp, and the average voter is going to wake up tomorrow the way they woke up today: highly susceptible to propaganda.
So as baseless as the criticisms are, they are ubiquitous. Search any right wing, or “centrist”, media source for “AOC” and you’ll find hundreds of insults and mischaracterizations. I really would not be surprised at all if she is the most criticized political figure (excepting presidents) of this generation.
That’s why I think a VP position for a relatively bland, but roughly progressive, old white candidate would be a great opportunity to offset all that vitriol.
Mamdani won despite all that. The people are ready for an unbought president.
Mamdani won in quite possibly the most left wing office in the nation. Good for him, good for them, and I hope it spreads.
Maybe it does by 2027ish, that would be really cool. That would be a radically different political landscape and my strategic opinion would change.
But in general I find that it’s usually most accurate to assume things will roughly remain the same. So while I’m optimistic that the landscape might change, I would still prefer to focus my strategy on assuming that it doesn’t.
If the tides start turning with some volume, it’s easy to pivot. But if rather be overprepared than naïve.