This all resonates -- and the NYT sent something in their newsletter yesterday that seemed especially worrying, speaking to 10 women who voted for Trump last time: "The Trump voters were considerably more enthusiastic about the former president than the Biden voters were about the current president, and more confident that Trump could improve the economy, interest rates and inflation — Biden, by contrast, struggles with the fact that voters don’t see reason to be confident that he will do things differently in a second term."
Which is exactly what the majority of the women I've spoken to have said. The Biden administration seems to be like "Hey, vote for us or things are going to get so much worse!" And it's like... "Ummm the biggest rollback of women's rights to abortion have happened during the Biden administration! You're saying we need us to vote for you to STOP this happening, and yet you are also saying you can't do anything about it happening when it's happened so far during your administration." It feels like we are already just sitting on the sidelines and letting an awful future play out anyway?!?
In terms of missing the fire though, I will say that I feel like the fire is there! The fire is just RAGE towards all of the old white men in power, including President Biden. When I posted about how frustrated I was, I had more than 50 DMs and these women were MAD AS HELL! And I mean mad that Biden was going to be the Democratic candidate. And the majority of women expressed that they feel like they aren't allowed to talk about how much they dislike Biden because the other Dems are so quick to jump in with "You can't say anything mean about Biden because what if Trump gets elected?!"
For me personally, I *will* vote for Biden in this election because it's insane Trump is even allowed to be running for President again. However, I feel INCREDIBLY resentful towards the Democratic Party, because I'll be voting for Biden with an overwhelming sadness. I have to vote for a candidate who I think will move us further away from the future I desire, only because the other options are worse.
Of course we feel disenfranchised as women -- We don't get to participate in a fair election, we are just participating in the in the illusion of a fair election, with three white men who are all misogynists. When you're given three shitty options, there's nothing fair about it. **goes to cry in the bathroom**
Thanks for sharing this Rosie - Agree there's a huge confidence gap on the left. Voting for the less terrible option isn't voting on hope or optimism. and there's little sign that the Democratic party is engaging strongly with the people who are disillusioned and disappointed.
We're choosing between a chaos agent and an untenable status quo.
This all resonates -- and the NYT sent something in their newsletter yesterday that seemed especially worrying, speaking to 10 women who voted for Trump last time: "The Trump voters were considerably more enthusiastic about the former president than the Biden voters were about the current president, and more confident that Trump could improve the economy, interest rates and inflation — Biden, by contrast, struggles with the fact that voters don’t see reason to be confident that he will do things differently in a second term."
Which is exactly what the majority of the women I've spoken to have said. The Biden administration seems to be like "Hey, vote for us or things are going to get so much worse!" And it's like... "Ummm the biggest rollback of women's rights to abortion have happened during the Biden administration! You're saying we need us to vote for you to STOP this happening, and yet you are also saying you can't do anything about it happening when it's happened so far during your administration." It feels like we are already just sitting on the sidelines and letting an awful future play out anyway?!?
In terms of missing the fire though, I will say that I feel like the fire is there! The fire is just RAGE towards all of the old white men in power, including President Biden. When I posted about how frustrated I was, I had more than 50 DMs and these women were MAD AS HELL! And I mean mad that Biden was going to be the Democratic candidate. And the majority of women expressed that they feel like they aren't allowed to talk about how much they dislike Biden because the other Dems are so quick to jump in with "You can't say anything mean about Biden because what if Trump gets elected?!"
For me personally, I *will* vote for Biden in this election because it's insane Trump is even allowed to be running for President again. However, I feel INCREDIBLY resentful towards the Democratic Party, because I'll be voting for Biden with an overwhelming sadness. I have to vote for a candidate who I think will move us further away from the future I desire, only because the other options are worse.
Of course we feel disenfranchised as women -- We don't get to participate in a fair election, we are just participating in the in the illusion of a fair election, with three white men who are all misogynists. When you're given three shitty options, there's nothing fair about it. **goes to cry in the bathroom**
Thanks for sharing this Rosie - Agree there's a huge confidence gap on the left. Voting for the less terrible option isn't voting on hope or optimism. and there's little sign that the Democratic party is engaging strongly with the people who are disillusioned and disappointed.
We're choosing between a chaos agent and an untenable status quo.