Joan Walsh has some choice words along with statistics as she observes “the press” cheering on the “B boys” while completely ignoring Elizabeth Warren
The media is ignoring that Warren beat Joe Biden, the Democratic front-runner, and outperformed her final polling.
I’m not surprised at all. We see this over and over as the highly experienced women are pushed aside in favor of glowing articles about the men. If only Liz had a deep voice and a couple years experience as mayor of a town the size of Manchester, NH <snark>.
“From the beginning, all of the women in the race—Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Klobuchar, Warren—have known they were facing erasure,” says former Iowa Democratic Party chair Sue Dvorsky, who switched her support from Harris to Warren after Harris left the race in December. “Elizabeth has known she has to just stay in there and keep fighting and just not quit.”
Will we Democrats once again fall for and support the patriarchy or will we wake up and actually nominate the most insanely qualified person? A woman who will fight hard and if given the opportunity, change the world.
The Joan Walsh piece at The Nation
edited: changed qualified woman to qualified person