How Long Must I Wait?

Well it's another election cycle and the big news is the last woman standing
just gave up.  Elizabeth Warren has suspended her campaign for president.
That leaves us with two old, very old, white, very white, men; Crazy Uncle
Joe and  Angry Jewish Grandpa.

I am disappointed, disillusioned, and soon to become disengaged.  Tell me
why I should keep participating in a process that ignores me and more than
half of the population of this country?  Please explain why we are not taken
seriously,  why we are still patted on the hand and told; now, now, politics is
a dirty business.  You don't want to be involved in such sordid shenanigans,
now do you dear?  A woman certainly cannot have the stomach for such as
this.

Let me be perfectly clear, many of us women are smarter, and much more
capable than the two men still in the running; Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris,
and Amy Klobuchar any of whom would have made a more than capable
president, and would probably live out their four year term in office and still
be viable for another four years.

Around the globe there are more than twelve countries that have women
heads of state: Denmark, Thailand, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Austrailia,
Liberia, Bangladesh, Iceland, Costa Rica, Finland, Lithuania, and Scotland.
What does the electorate in these countries know that we in the United
States do not?  What is the fear?  Are the men in this country so intimidated
by a strong woman that they fear putting her in charge of the affairs of the
state?  Or do they think their own wives would get the 'wrong idea'?

Pundits say that it is because there is a dearth of women in politics, but
there were enough women (five) in the race at the beginning, granted two
were airheads, one of which was eliminated early on, and one is still hanging
in there.  Though I can't imagine where she is getting her funds from.  But
speaking of airheads, just look at the current occupant of the White House.
There are hundreds of women who could do a better job than he has done,
without breaking a sweat.

The process by which a person is vetted after entering any of the races, from
city, county, state, or federal, can be brutal.  But chances are pretty great that
none of the women would be accused of grabbing another woman by her
genitalia, or forcing her into a sexual liaison, well there is one chance in a
thousand.

I used to think that I would live long enough to see a woman president, but
I am beginning to wonder, even though I am younger than the two men
running on the Democratic ticket.  But then so is four-fifths of the country.
Do I have to wait another four years?  Or will one of these septuagenarians
select one of the great women that shared the debate stage with them. The
first one that does has my vote.

                                            I'm just sayin'.