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  • No, Harris didn’t only lose because she was a woman. But it didn’t help. I think Americans hold the Presidency in a different regard than other offices. Some Americans who would be perfectly fine with women in other offices will draw the line at President.

    The thing is, they may not even be conscious of it. They might just have that nagging concern that they can’t quite out their finger on, leading them to dismiss the female candidates out of hand, without even realizing their lizard brain won’t let them fairly consider them.







  • How do you get your ID document? Does it cost a lot to get? Does any official look at perfectly valid ID and say “I don’t think that’s real, so you don’t her to vote”?

    We have no national ID here, the closest thing to prove citizenship is a passport but people are not required to have one, and it is expensive. For most people, the only definitive proof of citizenship they have is their original birth certificate.

    That is why here, in the US, when politicians push Voter ID laws it’s mainly to disenfranchise poor people.