From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
There is a Metaphor in Here
I could easily vote for either Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden. The ideological divide to me isn’t insurmountable. It doesn’t occur to me that the VP of the president who worked to get us the ACA really, genuinely, wants people to die from lack of health care access (as some of the Twitter red rose brigade want to claim) and I can sort through the awkward decisions the Sanders campaign makes and the yet more awkward pronouncements of Sanders superfans to support the man and his policies in general. I genuinely believed though, that adding up the full ledger of positive qualities: attitude of campaigning; thorough, detailed policies; the high caliber of the people who I know supported her, that Elizabeth Warren would have made the superior, actual, functioning president. She is articulate, a team-builder, an educator, a mentor, person who has run an absolutely respectable campaign–
But I guess the electorate isn’t taking a chance on another highly-competent blonde lady, because a highly-competent blonde lady only won the popular vote the last time out. After watching Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, and Amy Klobuchar all have to fold, knowing what extremely qualified badasses they actually are, seeing Senator Warren fucking ether Bloomberg like a kamikaze in debate and get this paltry voting result makes me want to holler. She is a phenomenon.
And she is a phenomenon the voters don’t want. And I don’t know how to not chalk that up to gender, because no other thing stands out to me as being as relevant to her lack of support.
Is there anyway, come a Democratic Senate majority, that she can be majority leader? Because that would make me ridiculously happy and strike a note of fear in all the correct people. Because here is the other thing I’m concerned about–