White Males Easy Prey For Female Bullies

Recently watched the movie “Crash.”  To be certain it is one of Hollywood’s finer moments of which they have very few these days.  The movie dovetailed with the interview below and created a needed realization. 

In an interview with Jon Stewart when he was hosting The Daily Show, Nancy Pelosi was asked what her number ONE objective was as Speaker of the House.  She replied by saying that she wanted to get more women elected to congress.  Not campaign finance reform, not ending homelessness or poverty, not single payer universal health care, not ending our never-ending wars, not gun control, not a greater minimum wage.  The results of this year’s mid-term elections have placed more women in congressional seats than ever before, while the afore mentioned has grown to plague us like never before. 

In a recent interview on PBS News Hour, Judy woodruff spoke with departing senators Claire McCaskill and Heidi Heitkamp.  It is a marvelous exchange that contains key wisdom and proper perspective for today’s political climate.   

Heidi Heitkamp; “Whoever gets nominated (Democratic Nominee) should have three characteristics. They should have character. They should have charisma. And they should have competence.” 

Claire McCaskill; “..one of the mistakes we make as a party is spending too much time talking about a gender thing.  You know, we are a party of all kinds of people… white men, white working-class men have traditionally been a huge part of our party.  We have lost a lot of them.  And one of those reasons is, we have had a tendency to talk too much about gender.” 

“I want someone who is…inspirational, charismatic…. who is competent and strong and authentic, and I don’t care if they are a man or a woman.” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5befXLNJkg 

We are bigoted nation because we promote and accept many forms of bigotry.  If someone espoused the point of view that the only way things are going to get better is if we elect more white males to congress, that person, that statement, would be attacked as being bigoted and discriminatory, which, to be certain, it is.  

Yet, if that same someone says the only way things are going to get better is if we elect more blacks, Latinos, Hmongs, or women to congress, we applaud the thinking and statement even though there is no evidence or validation for the contention and even though it is as bigoted and discriminatory as the white man statement.  We are clearly our own worst enemy. 

As McCaskill astutely insinuates; there is no law, mandate or even a perceived suggestion that we are best served by men or women.  To hold that one frame of mind is discriminatory and bigoted, while accepting the other, is an oxymoron.  And yes - lets be frank about it.  It’s just plain stupid.  But then stupidity is the cornerstone for the definition of bigotry. 

Wittingly or unwittingly, the Democratic Party has created a safe haven for female bullies.  For Dems to achieve the level of influence they desire in the political area, they will have to embrace the wisdom of McCaskill and Heitkamp and abandon as their primary focus “Baby It’s Cold Outside” and promoting the electing of ONLY women.