It is gonna take a glass of wine to get through this one.
It remains totally clear to me that this election is as much about the shift between the old generation and the new as it is about the undeniable fact that we, as a culture, are not interested in female leadership. The two are entwined in an old and lasting way. That older culture, filled with people who quietly want to say and think the things that Trump actively says and does. Not all of these people are bad people, and in fact most are likely responding in a defensive way to what they see as continuing change to the fundamental way life has been lived in their country over the course of their lives. For the first time, I really get ‘Thanks, Obama’ because it is largely his fault.
When you elect a black president and follow it with a woman then all sense of the way things were is gone. Trump is a response to that, and one that ought not be ignored. These people are Americans too. Some of them are the kind of folks who want to believe the world is against them, and the way Trump continues to point to there being a conspiracy to steal the election is making them very dangerous.
Someone is going to get shot.
Some Thoughts:
- The more I read and watch and love, the less I understand women.