• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    God that whole rhetoric pissed me off to no end, when they shoved Bernie aside because it was ‘her turn’. The level of arrogance needed to even think that, let alone push it as an argument on voters…

    While I’m certainly not downplaying her actual political credits - she has experience in all levels of government - the presidency is not an ‘it’s my turn now’ position. That soured a lot of voters on her as a candidate.

    ‘It’s my turn’ is only an argument if you’re waiting in line at Disneyland.

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      4 months ago

      Was the saying “it’s her turn” always referring specifically to Hillary? I always processed “it’s her turn” to just refer to a woman president in general, and giving the environment, that just happened to be Hillary. Still not MUCH better, but at least we’re saying it’s a collectives turn, not a single individual person.

      Edit: literally just asking a simple question and posing a rhetorical in response to my memories around the event. Not trying to start anything.