America has yet to elect its first female president, while other countries have seen the role come and go for various women.
The left would have you believe this is all because of sexism, which... of course they would. They need people to believe that our society runs on a toxic mix of misogyny and testosterone. Every male elected to office is a slap in the face to the Left, unless that female is a Republican, in which case, being awful to a woman is suddenly in vogue.
According to Fox News, Michelle Obama has watched as America has passed on two female candidates now, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and has concluded that America just isn't ready for one:
"As we saw in this past election, sadly, we ain’t ready," she said on Friday.
"That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not," she continued.
The former first lady went on to say that she does not believe men in America are comfortable with a woman leading them.
"You know, we’ve got a lot of growing up to do, and there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it," Obama said.
Try to stop your eyeballs from rolling out of their sockets, if at all possible.
Obama's woe-is-women nonsense is just that: nonsense. Firstly, if she wants to blame men, I'll remind her that 46 percent of women turned out to vote for Trump over Harris. If even women didn't want her by a large margin, then this had to be a bit deeper than "America sexist, America hate woman." Harris was just a bad candidate, a bad politician, and need I remind you, not chosen by Democrat voters to be their 2024 candidate.
And as for Clinton, she was just as bad, but I don't think people truly understood that, thanks to all the media glossing she got. She was incredibly off-putting, physically frail, and had a record of failure that couldn't be spun.
But if Obama thinks men refuse to elect women, I'd point her to all the women who are currently holding office at every level of government as evidence that she's full of it.
But it does leave the question. Why hasn't America elected a woman as president in its history?
Republicans are fine with women as leaders, and if someone like an American version of Margaret Thatcher came along, I'm pretty sure you'd see half the country pull the lever for her. The thing is, most Republicans wouldn't care that she was a woman. They'd elect her because she's a good leader with a solid plan and the wherewithal to carry that plan out. Someone with the wisdom and wit to fight for the right thing.
But for Republicans, her womanhood would be a secondary, if not tertiary concern. This, I think, horrifies the Democrats who have convinced themselves that identity is the most important thing about anyone. When they choose a leader, they don't look first at merit, capability, plans, or intelligence; they look at the skin color, consider the plumbing, and go from there.
And it's this issue that, I think, has kept women out of office.
Democrats will work tirelessly to make sure a woman from the Republican side doesn't get close to the highest seat in the land because they desperately want that honor first. Look at how they treat Republican women, especially if that woman is a little too close to the White House. Sarah Palin was the recipient of every sexist attack the Democrats profess to hate.
But the reason the Democrats have never gotten one elected despite all the king's horses and all the king's men is that they become so hyper-focused on the womahood aspect that they ignore everything about the candidate that makes her so unappealing. Democrat tastemakers have to effectively play defense the entire campaign, and even then, the best they can come up with to combat arguments against their would-be "First Lady" is that everyone attacking her is sexist.
It's not that America isn't ready for a woman leader; it's that we're not ready for that leader, and hopefully we never will be.
A leader should be chosen to get the job done, not check an identity box. Until Democrats get that identity ultimately means little, a female president is a far-off prospect.
