I Guess My Question Was Answered

Last July I asked the question  "Is the US Ready to Elect a Woman of Colour as President?

The answer to my question seems to be an emphatic "NO".

I have been saying since July that the election was going to come down to turnout. As well, I also asserted that the choice of VP Harris as the Democratic flag bearer had the potential to demotivate Democratic voters, who do not like Donald Trump but also do not like the idea of a woman of colour as President, from voting.

It would appear that just such a situation came to pass last night. Looking at the overall number of votes from last night, Donald Trump received around the same number of votes as he did in 2020, so the MAGA cult showed up. However, Kamala Harris only received around 70,000,000 votes which is around 12,000,000 less that Joe Biden did in 2020 and 10,000,000 votes less than Hillary Clinton did in 2016. Democrats stayed home, Republicans did not, hence last night's results.

In the postmortems of last night the idea that VP Harris' skin colour and gender was a big contributing factor cannot be ignored. While it was not the only reason why Democrats decided not to vote it is certainly an important reason why.

It is unfortunate because VP Harris would have probably made a good president and if I were allowed to vote in American elections I would have certainly voted for her. However, racism and sexism have deep, long lasting roots in the United States, that cut across partisan lines, and the US was just not ready for what Kamala Harris represented.

Update: I am seeing online that people are claiming that 20 million ballots are missing and they are demanding they be found and counted. They are not missing for the simple reason that they were never cast. Millions of Americans decided not to participate in the democratic process this year. It is that simple. They will have to live with the consequences.

Update 2: I have complained about this before. For some reason progressives are not as committed to participating in the democratic process as conservatives. We see it everywhere. Conservatives with the conviction of their convictions always come out and support their candidates, even when they may not be the best candidates. Progressives are more fickle. If a progressive politician is not considered the best candidate many will stay home, (or in Canada they decide to vote for a party that has no hope of winning, splitting the progressive vote) usually handing victory to those whose political views and policies are anathema to their own. Unfortunately, they never seem to learn from this mistake.