If Bernie Sanders loses, his backers may not be there for Hillary Clinton in November

Social pressure... aka how you vote... If the public made it clear trough voting that this lack of representation in office is unacceptable then the culture would change. How the establishment chooses to pressure, support and promote people would change. But the establishment already knows that voters don't really care about these inequalities and will continue to pressure men to climb the ladder and women to take the back seat

Have you never taken a sociology class in your life? The idea that sexism originates at the voting booth is comical.

A 15 year old vote... votes between the two that were 95% the same while in Congress...

And yet it speaks volumes about judgement. You're showing blatant levels of bias by sweeping the most important vote in the last two centuries under the rug as nothing.

That letter does not show Sanders supporting same sex rights...

Same sex couples literally didn't have the right to plough back then. He was fighting for equality before I was born.

how dare she take a job offer to talk about her life experiences...

I'm not going to lie, I'd do the same in her position. I just wouldn't pretend to run for president as if I didn't owe my life's wealth to the biggest political boogieman the democrats had.

Clinton confronted him directly in the debate and he had no response!!

His response was the "are you fucking shitting me?" face he had. The gall Clinton has to pretend that she's not influenced by people pouring money directly into her pockets on stage at a live debate...

no she's not... the FBI literally said their not investigating her criminally...

These are muddy waters to waft into, but you can't deny the looming possibility that'd be devastating for the entire democratic side if the investigation found anything (or made up anything) after the democratic primaries ended.

The mere fact that all your conclusions are wrong and incredibly biased tells me everything.

I take this statement and apply it to you. Wait,

And when someone asserts that this country is corrupt for not having equal representation in political office

this country is corrupt for not having equal representation in political office

Are you serious? Please tell me I'm misreading this or there was an error somewhere along the line here, because I just processed a statement that lays blame for the corruption in Washington and governments across the United States... at the feet of no presidents having had female genitalia?

Again, I desperately hope that I'm grossly misrepresenting your opinion here, but do you think that governmental corruption isn't due to moneyed interests, not special interest groups, not Citizens United, nor Buckley v Valeo? That it isn't the rich and powerful corrupting governmental incentive structures, just a lack of representation of underrepresented demographicsspecifically women?

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