'We ain't ready.' Michelle Obama says the country doesn't want a woman president.

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42. Sadly. I think it might actually be worse now than it was 20 years ago

On paper, as generations age out and Gen Z replaces the Greatest Generation and Boomers, there would be a natural evolution towards a more modern concept of female leadership.

However, the nature of public discourse is now controlled by Social Media. Every single person in America gets a personalized feed that cares only about engagement regardless of the truth. Cynical power brokers have managed to exploit this wedge into the psyches of voters to unearth their buried prejudices. That is why you find voters who swear they would vote for a woman but just "not that woman". They have been manipulated to believe that Clinton and Harris were unsuitable and they quote internet nonsense to justify the choice.

No candidate will be free of this danger going forward. Sadly, the most boring and traditional candidates will fare better than most simply because they have the fewest inherent "otherness" to attack.

But I have to confess that I am cynical about the future of democracy for any candidate with the current state of social media. I just don't see how we can run a democracy with no common agreement on the nature of truth