YES! We should mandate that 50% of elected officials be women.
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YES! But, let the people decide at the polls.
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Hillary Clinton is unfit to be President - she is the choice of the Moneyed Elite which her husband helped create and her daughter married into. If you she wasn’t she wouldn’t be so heavily touted in the media as Obama apparent heir.
Enough is enough.
Looking to the system to produce a solution to the Peoples' predicament is pure fantasy. Your vote is meaningless when cash can purchase both parties allegiance or corporations can otherwise threaten both parties into servitude. As we have seen, in the absence of a complete social restructuring any promise or hope to change this is a pure lie.
We live in a Corporatestocracy that yields only corrupt results when pretending to be a democracy. The fantasy that it can do anything else is the main source of power the ruling class has over us and it is maintained through the use of propaganda.
And year after year it has failed the People and now, it has gotten so bad that you actually purchase meetings with a President who is fighting hard to drown out the constitution as well as our rights with the implements of a surveillance state (drones).
The social safety net and general welfare of the People will continue to fall. They will slowly be eroded even further. Especially through the elite's policy toward the environment. Non-violent civil disobedience of the kind that gave the People throughout history nearly each and every piece of their humanity is the only true option left.
What about Obama held himself out, what he purported to stand for, is pure fantasy. The American dream is a fantasy and so is the representativeness of what our government can currently produce for us.
Americans are looking at a very grave future at a time of severely concentrated wealth. Promise yourself you won't be silenced or lulled into complacency with more heavily disguised pittances coming out of Washington. ALEC doesn't care about social issues and there can be no equality without economic equality.
The America I see today makes me sick.
More women like Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Stabenow, or Jan Shakowsky? Or more women like Michele Bachmann and Christine O'Donnell?
I will vote based on who they are and what they say, not based on sex, race, religion, or anything else.
Of course I will admit when they say they are a republican that stops me for looking any further.
Women sure can't do worse Likely much better I'm talking classy intelligent women who care about America, its citizens / workers / families./ quality education.
Amen to telliottmbamsc's comment !!!
the good ole usa is becoming a fascist state ruled by the corporate elite.
what a sad state of affairs.
Exactly well said
i agree that one's vote should not be based on gender, but who is best qualified for the job!
That was a serious question?
I know few women as numb as myself.
As a very broad generalization, I would say "Yes" as women tend to be more compassionate, nurturing, etc., qualities that I believe are valuable in an elected official. Women are certainly every bit as capable, intelligent, rational and effective, if given equal opportunities and education. Having said that, our choices should be made based on many factors, not just one. Each of us should carefully discover and understand what we believe in on all issues, learn as much as we can about each candidate, their education, their voting records, their experience, their behavior, what they say, what they do, what kind of mother/father, husband/wife, daughter/son, boss/employer they are. The whole person should be considered, when we decide how to use our valuable Constitutional right and privilege of voting.
Unfortunately, the nation IS becoming engulfed in fascism, but it us up to all of us to steer us back to real democracy. We can't just accept corporate control of our lives. Support a Constitutional amendment to remove Constitutional personhood status from corporations is one step. Support legislation raising the minimum wage. Know how members of the House and Senate vote about voting rights, Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security, and every other individual right. Then vote only for those who support human personhood, individual empowerment and freedom, equality, peace, education for all, honesty and truth, all of the things that are made this country so great, especially those attributes that are threatened by greed and plutocracy.
Would electing more women make our nation better?
Ridiculous questions like the one above should be raised in countries such as China and Iran, not in the USA where women are already in the process of trying to immitate every single skill that men have previously achieved and developed.
"Smarter" just made a really dumb comment: "Ridiculous questions like the one above should be raised in countries such as China and Iran, not in the USA where women are already in the process of immitating every single skill that men have previously achieved and developed."
Imitating men? I don't think so, pal. We do what we have to do, to survive in a patriarchal world.
In light of Republi-piggies' current assault on virtually every right we women have fought for - and won - over the past century or more (birth control, abortion rights, property rights, the vote, legal recourse for rape victims, etc. etc.) as well as basic rights still being denied us (equal pay in the workforce, for example)... I'd say there's plenty of reason why women should want equal representation. Decisions made in the House & Senate have a profound impact on our daily lives, regardless of gender. Women have as much skin in the game as everyone else.
What can be more ridiculous than a Congressional dialogue about birth control, from which women were deliberately & willfully excluded?!! Misogyny is still alive and well in the good ole U.S.A.
To answer Thom's question, I think I'd answer in the affirmative. BUT (and this is a very big "but"...) it also depends on what women we're talking about. I'd pick Dennis Kucinich over Sarah Loony-Tunes Palin any day. Were I to choose between Michele-the-loudmouth Bachmann and Bernie Sanders, well... you get my point. I always thought of Margaret Thatcher as just another Reagan with lipstick. And I could write a long list of male politicians I'd rather vote for than Hillary Clinton. Point being, I don't give a rat's behind what gender a candidate is; it's their values, beliefs and priorities that matter most. - Aliceinwonderland
Yes we could to with this balance in society ,women would hammer out justice as opposed to men who only use hammers to hit each other with.Men mostly play the hammer game and it,s noted that those with the biggest hammers tend to win.but an evolving society must ask itself and observe that nobody win,s in the long run and to continue using the same energy to solve our problems does not work.
If more progressive women were on the ballots, women like Elizabeth Warren, who are not afraid of the banksters and the billionaires, then yes. A female Teddy Roosevelt or several of them is what we need. As things are now, Obama's idea of stripping away the last of FDR's New Deal, which is putting us right back to where we were before the New Deal, is going to not only leave him with no positive legacy, but will be held up by racists for years to come as a reason to not elect an African-American. He's not doing the country any real favors right now, by showing he can be bought off.
To: Aliceinwonderland
(Human) existence stands capable for the promotion of INDIVIDUALITY and of compatible UNIONS; not for adventurous generalizations such as are found in expressions of the type "patriarchal world", hammer-wielding men, (gender) equality etc. A woman is much more powerful, intelligent, amazing, beautiful if she values the work given by a man’s guidance. A man is also empowered greatly by a woman who follows him.
I don't understand all the dem-rep smearing (basically name calling) endeavors. The Democratic Party is just a branch of the Republican Party, as far as I know. Am I wrong?
Regarding “To answer Thom's question, I think I'd answer in the affirmative.”
A trick question (like Thom’s), which presents only AFFIRMATIVE answers as "options", can only be answered (suspiciously) with affirmative.
Men are best represented by ACHIEVEMENTS and women are best represented by CELEBRATION.
Sure it is great to celebrate, especially men’s innovativeness, and achievements such as that when a crew of airwomen first piloted a plane. In this case, as it is with most, even if only a very recent achievement, one cannot help but see how these airwomen are living their celebration in the past, back when thousands of airmen developed and flew airplanes; among these creative men were the ones falling to their deaths, in order for all to learn and to make it safe for women to fly airplanes later, therefore availing the very achievement, to women as well. When women celebrate these sort of achievements, it would be fair for them to celebrate men as well.
Women are better than men. There I said it. However there is ONLY a single ground where women are truly better than men, and that ground is:
COMPETITIVENESS
Women are much more competitive than men. For example, many women have even provoked men to compete with each other. As another example, women boxing training and competition engage extensive emotional involvement which is not seen in men who practice this sport. If - in an absurd manner - men were the only inhabitants of the earth, competition would certainly not exist.
Electing more women would NOT make our nation better because women are highly competitive (especially among themselves) and the nation would LITERALLY be then called:
the Divided States of America