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In reply to the discussion: Why Republican women still voted for Trump [View all]delisen
(7,370 posts)is not facing the emerging facts about the election.
Clinton is the revolutionary in our world-as are the major portion of her voters.
She is about true equality, and about placing children first in our world view-this has never been done
We have lived our lives in a world dominated by a worldview in which men are the default "human" and the rest of us are seen as a sub set of men. we are near-humans.
The world view doesn't work for most of us-we have fewer choices and options, we are seen as "the other", and that is how we see ourselves when we are embedded in this cultural worldview.
Some people think they are being revolutionaries when they fight for equal pay for women, or for women's issues as though they are separate from human issues. These people are actually reformers, as we all are when we fight for these good things.
Being a reformer is a good thing. I do not denigrate it.
It helps many people, it moves us toward a culture of true equality but reform alone can never bring us to complete equality. We cannot cross the finish line by reform alone.
If there is not a change in the worldview, reforms can be lost. We are witnessing this process now.
Permanent change requires a revolution in how we see ourselves. It means we all have to move into the default-human position of full personhood.
Revolutionaries will always have baggage--because the beneficiaries of the dominant world view are lightning-quick to recognize the threat and start shooting at the target.
The message to us in the attacks on our candidates "You have chosen a candidate who is unacceptable to our dominance. You must run candidates who do not threaten our world view and the power we derive from it."
I think it is time to change ancient, primative, and so-far enduring worldview. It is time to stop acquiesce to it in the hope of getting a somewhat better deal for us "others."