New Election, Who Dis?

In 2007 Hillary Clinton shocked the world by running in the Democratic Primary. Sure, it had been done before. But this was the first time a woman might actually win the nomination of a major US party. And she didn’t. She lost to Obama. In 2015, she did it again.

She’d been a well loved New York Senator and a highly memed Secretary of State and her popularity among Democrats remains astronomical to this day. (I’m aware those numbers don’t look incredible, but check out this for comparison.) And conservatives particularly the GOP and those primarily allied with the GOP lost their minds. Hillary Clinton was well left of her husband, a consummate professional they’d spent years unsuccessfully trying to take down, and the most qualified person ever to run for President. But her greatest most inexcusable sin among those who opposed her was that she was a woman.

American men tell me routinely that Muslim women have it worse, so what am I complaining about? I mean, cool story, but I spent years living with a Muslim woman, I know and am friends with several others, and I’m also friends with Muslim men. I’m not going to say that Muslim culture is across the board in all countries totally egalitarian, because omg lols, but with the exception of one guy the Muslim men I met basically treated me like a princess. Not really how I want to be treated, but it’s better than how American men…