According to Maggie Severns — "some lesbians don't want [gay] Pete Buttigieg to be president" — that one line sums America's identity idiocy

© 2019 Peter Free

 

30 August 2019

 

 

Exaggerated identity politics miss more fundamental points

 

 

Consider this:

 

 

Campbell Spencer, a lesbian and political consultant, moved to Washington in the 1990s to work in LGBTQ advocacy.

 

But so far, [Democratic Party presidential candidate] Kamala Harris has wowed Spencer more than any other candidate in the race.

 

“[Gay] Mayor Pete, he’s a trailblazer,” Spencer said in an interview.

 

“But I’m one of these women who thinks we are way overdue for having a woman in the White House.”

 

[E]specially when compared with the laborious ascent of Hillary Clinton, Buttigieg’s swift rise in national politics hints of male favoritism, some said.

 

“It feels like a slap in the face to just go directly to the white gay guy, when for decades you’ve been trying to elect a woman and it didn’t happen last time,” said one lesbian Democrat who works in national politics.

 

“If Pete Buttigieg is elected it won’t feel like a vindication of Hillary Clinton. If a woman is elected, it will.”

 

© 2019 Maggie Severns, Why some lesbians don’t want Pete Buttigieg to be president, Politico (27 August 2019)

 

 

First, the obvious

 

Who cares what "some lesbians" think?

 

Some lesbians could be only a meaningless few.

 

Not, in this off-the-cuff instance, a polled majority.

 

 

The moral? — American inane

 

Murder-favoring imperialist, neoliberal oppressor Hillary Clinton lost (in 2016) to American History's arguably most morally disgusting presidential wannabe nincompoop.

 

And now, "some lesbians" say, we should nevertheless try again to oppose him with someone of essentially equivalent Clintonesque mind.

 

Except this time, delivered in even more politically challenging "brown woman" flavor.

 

These "some" lesbians' logic is that — just as with King of Hypocrites Obama — Kamala Harris' election would represent a major step for non-white humanity.

 

This apparently being so, regardless of what Kamala Harris actually stands for. Which is, by the way, Establishment Normal.

 

But isn't Establishment Normal the core problem?

 

No matter what gender or self-professed identity it is delivered in?