The ugly, unspoken truth about this election.

[thejoker123]

41. You misinterpreted my post

First, I never said sexism is the prime motivator for all Trump supporters, racism and xenophobia are. BUT...if you think there isn't furious sexism amongst Trump suppprters, you must not be paying attention. His supporters wear totally offensive sexist shirts. They love it when Trump calls women fat and ugly and so on. When he says Hillary needs a nap and so on.

Go to a Trump rally and you won't find a bigger group of raging sexist.

That being said, my point wasn't about the right wing base, it was that sexism its playing a big role in why this is only a 3% race right now, a race between a serious, accomplished, overly qualified politician and an evil cartoon villain who few Americans would let near their daughters.

I'm talking about moderates and independents. I explained that our society's inherent sexism is why Trump is given unprecedented latitude for the most outrageous behavior whereas Hillary is crucified if she laughs the wrong way.

It's no different than most corporate environments where while often the biggest white male idiots gets promoted, the females who get promoted are always the best performers. This is structural, inherent sexism, sometime it's overt, often it's subconscious.

It's the same reason Obama didn't crush McCain/Palin by 10%+ on the heels of the bush presidency no less! Because a certain segment of society "didn't trust" him. And we all know why that was. They'd rather risk more years of white republican rule than the black guy. And now it's the same with a woman.

To deny sexism doesn't play a role is like saying racism didn't with Obama. You're basically saying these things don't exist in our society, or that people just put that aside when electing their leaders.

Their has been the most extreme double standard we've ever see in this election. And a lot of that is because Hillary is the first woman. If you don't see that, you're kidding yourself.