uran10 said:
Not saying sexism doesn't exist, just saying people put too much emphasis on it and turn to it and other identity issues as the basis for "that's why xyz happened". Hillary vs Trump was establishment vs (fake)Populist, it was the wife of the dude who shipped the rust belt's jobs overseas vs the guy calling out those trade deals and saying he'll rip them to shreds. Its pretty obvious why Trump won and it had nothing to do with gender. The rust belt would have gone the same way simply because their main issue was the trade deal and hillary was all TPP while trump railed against it. Biden is in a similar position to hillary being his terrible record. In fact his record is somehow even worse than hers yet he's still up there and there's a simple reason for that. Its the same thing that was boosting hillary at the start. Name recognition and default support and most aren't paying attention. At the start of 2016 I didn't care about the election, I thought hillary would be the nominee and that she was "alright". Then I educated myself on her and on Bernie and then I got very involved politically cause she was a disaster. Its the exact same process, the only difference now is that there are more people involved from the start than not, but that default older base is still there and they're bolstering up Biden just like they did Hillary. Look at Hillary's elections, and I mean all of them. She starts off high in the polls, then slides down as more people know her. Biden is in the exact same spot, the only difference is he can't afford to drop and now that people are starting to pay attention, well.... Iran happened so that may not be the case, but when people pay attention Biden will fall. It comes down to how fast he falls like I said before. TL:DR Biden's "short comings" etc are going to come up and bite him once people start paying attention just like it did for hillary especially cause unlike her, he doesn't have that leeway. Yes Sexism exists, but you're putting way too much stock into it and not focusing on the real reason trump won 2016. More people are paying attention now and more will pay attention once Iowa hits, that's when we'll see what Biden is really made of. |
Trump won because of racism and sexism. The former basically fuels the entire mindset of dozens of millions of rural White voters in the US and elsewhere (the myth of "economic anxiety" having been extensively discussed in the European Elections thread and elsewhere) while the latter might have killed her chances of flipping the 50,000 votes or so she needed to win the electoral college.
Hillary has been bombarded by the media for decades now. What happened in 2016 wasn't anything new. The very reason she seemed a fake-ish estabilishment politican was an attempt to control her image given what women and specially her have faced in the public eye since the 90s or even earlier. Not to mention that even in 2015 Trump reached heights in the polls against Hillary he hasn't matched against Biden (or even some of the other candidates) this time around. He was even ahead at some points.
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