after 300 years a woman wins a parties nomination and loses the EC but wins the popular vote

[countryjake]

42. I'm not certain why you think that's the lesson learned...

since I haven't heard much of the latest brouhaha that's gone down this week, but, I agree that whenever we decide to run with someone who does not fully support all of our hard-won Women's Rights, those candidates who would willingly compromise and concede any of those rights, just to "reach across the aisle" in the hopes of winning a few votes from conservatives, the result will almost certainly be perceived as a slap across the face to millions of progressive women.

When one considers that a goodly proportion of our population can no longer be inspired to even cast a vote, I think maybe that's where we should be looking for "lessons". Some of the severe regressive policies that have been handed down by our leaders and our legislators during the past twenty-five years have only further oppressed the already marginalized and disenfranchised people of our country and succeeded in beating down the working-poor men and women, Black men and women, all the minorities who rarely have had any say in this nation's government. Is it any wonder why so many throw their hands in the air, thinking why should they bother?