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In reply to the discussion: James Carville puts foot in mouth, AOC with a good retort [View all]GoreWon2000
(1,461 posts)For decades and thanks to the gender gap, women have been bailing out the dems and have gotten nothing for their efforts. For too long the dem party and Congressional leadership have paid lip service to women's issues and voting rights and then run like scarred rabbits when they actually have to defend these important rights. There's no better example than Florida 2000. A post election analysis by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found that most of the uncounted Florida votes were the votes of low income, African American women. I'll always remember then DNC chair Ed Rendell publicly urging Al Gore to end his fight to have the uncounted Florida votes counted while Senate dems hid in their cushy, ivory Washington towers rather than defend we the people's right to vote. I guess the voters needed to have the ability to right big campaign contribution checks in order to get their right to vote defended. The failure of Senate dems to act in 2000 is why our country suffers so terribly today with the threat of tRump today and women now no longer having the right to control their own bodies.