People are Overstating the Significance of Race and Sex in this Election

[Mike03]

Human beings are not as stupid as some people hope, when it comes to discriminating against others due to sex or race. We just often pretend to be stupid, hoping that our fellow Americans are stupid and will fall for this guise that we are all racist, sexist dumbshits.

I protest.

Come on folks. We are all grownups. This country, young as it is, awakened from the hysteria of sexism and racism a long time ago. I'm imagining that anyone raised, as I was, after the Sixties or Seventies, has fully expected that a man or woman or any ethnic background is as fit and qualified to do work of any kind in this country as anyone.

To deny this is not merely primative posturing, and antiquated, but wholly anachronistic. Maybe folks born before the late 1930s might harbor such supersitious and ignorant prejudices, but I can't accept that in this day and age there are people who doubt the equality of females or members of other races.

If they do, they are scarce, or they are posers who know deep down that there is no difference, but they pose because they hope to harmonize with others who share the same delusion. There is no conviction in these sick beliefs anymore. We have grown up. All it takes is for America to say the Emporer has no clothes, and no longer will it be possible to play the Sex card or the Race card.

Any effort on the part of any candidate to trigger primal responses against either Clinton for being female or Obama for being Black will only expose how insufficient and behind the times Repuke strategies are.

I have got to trust human beings to mature along with the times.

In the final analysis, we vote for people who speak to us.

For many of us that was Biden, or Kucinich, or Richardson, or now Obama or Clinton.

Some people are speaking down to us... We know what we want, and it is not filtered through the prism of any ideology. It has to do with emotions at a deep level, rational consideration, and ruminative thought.

[seriousstan]

1. You mean if someone doesn't vote for Obama they are not automatically racist? That's racist!!

[lastknowngood]

2. A 10% swing will turn many blue states red

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