It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. Joseph StalinI am miserable about the campaign. The horserace aspect for the past year is a critical waste of billions of dollars and political attention towards more important things like voter security. I live in an area where the elections have been tampered with, been stolen, for the last 7 years. Minimum.
I thank earthfamilyalpha for this video. As a feminist I applaud this accompanying post by Susan Bright on Hillary Clinton claiming experience as a president when she was a first lady.
But I have never abandoned that first insight — that women are not part of a man’s being, psyche, world. We are individual, free-standing beings.
My husband can build an entire house beginning with a pile of sticks on the ground. Either of my sons can accomplish a break job on a car in minutes. I cannot. It would fool hearted for one to hire me to build a house, or fix the brakes on their car. If I said I could do either based on the experience of my husband and sons, I would be lying.[snip]
I think it does matter how one wins.
It’s not enough to elect a woman if you want to advance the status of women in the world. Thatcher showed us that. Nancy Pelosi is giving us a refresher course. We need an enlightened woman, free of corporate strings, separate from a political machine, an independent thinker, person, being -- not one who claims her husband's experience as her own.
I am particularly fond of Susan's feminist perspective on this. She makes some really great points. It worth reading the whole thing.
Susan Bright is the author of nineteen books of poetry. She is the editor of Plain View Press which since 1975 has published one-hundred-and-fifty books. Her work as a poet, publisher, activist and educator has taken her all over the United States and abroad. Her most recent book, The Layers of Our Seeing, is a collection of poetry, photographs and essays about peace done in collaboration with photographer Alan Pogue and Middle Eastern journalist, Muna Hamzeh.
