Catch you at change.org!
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Could be worse. The U.K. is teaching its daughters that they need to be like Thatcher or May to be PM.
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You just had to find the flaw in my argument, didnāt you? 
I always think of Thatcher when discussing gender/politics, and I have a sneaking suspicion Hillary does too. It saddens me that we are anywhere teaching our girls such things. Do you know what I would dearly love? A female Bernie.
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Iām not sure a grumpy female septuagenarian would be an improvement over Bernie. What we need is Nicola Sturgeon to be the next UK Prime Minister. Isnāt there some way the Queen can make this happen?
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Iām not sure ā Iād vote for any of those ladies from āThe Golden Girlsā for president.
Someone else will have to chime in on this. My knowledge of the royals is limited to what Kate wore to her most recent event.
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Itās not good, but it is the reality of our dumb system. Sometimes you have to either be a grown-up and choose between unfortunate options, or abdicate which is effectively supporting the worse option. This is one of those times.
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Look, I like my daughter to have good female role models, but at some point its overpowered by the fact that Clinton is just a poor candidate. Whether criticisms of her are true or justified or not at all, she has too many leverage points for an opponent so loosely tied to reality as Trump, with a following that will accept whatever he asserts.
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I guess weāll find out in October next year.
As far as the UK goes, there are women as party leaders almost everywhere, which is refreshing.
Theresa May (or Andrea Leadsom), Nicola Sturgeon, Angela Eagle (possibly), Caroline Lucas (to replace Natalie Bennett?), Leanne Wood, Ruth Davidson, Kezia Dugdaleā¦
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I believe that the Queen officially asks someone to form a government, but in practice this is completely ceremonial. I think the Queen should break recent tradition, ask Sturgeon to form a government, and when people object respond with something like, āYou lot have proved yourselves incapable of running our country, so it looks like we have to take matters back into our own hands.ā
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I like it! Even though it smacks of totalitarianism and ignores the democratic process, thereās clearly an untapped part of my soul that wants to bitch slap the people who supported Brexit and in the US, support Trump. In summary, if I were in charge, this would be the US national anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPL3_7ee588
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I now have a mental image of Brenda pulling her Hermes scarf to shade her faceā¦
David Cameronā¦ you have failed this countryā¦ 
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Speaking of women for president and lack of decent Republican choices, Iām curious why Republicans didnāt try to run Nikki Haley. I donāt know that much about her positions, but anyone that I havenāt heard is a puppy murderer or runs over people in wheelchairs is ahead of Trump in my book.
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Theresa May and Maggie Thatcher:
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So what? She is what persons voted for in the primary. She is who America voted for to run against Trump. Unless you can travel back in time and change any of this, the relative poorness of her candidacy is not relevant at this point in the election.
Act local. Push to reform the DNC or the systems that enable this two party system, rants alone donāt push us forward.
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People keep expecting Donald Trump to change, to pivot to the middle or start using a carefully planned platform/script. Clearly it aināt gonna happen. What you see is what you get.
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The Democrats would argue that this is why they have Super Delegates. Given that the outcome of the primary was so close, and the primaries in so many states suspect, they would be completely within their bounds to choose the better candidate despite the narrow lead. Instead the Super Delegates are used to usher in the insider candidate instead of the better outsider candidate. And so we have a situation where the Democrats are advancing a poor candidate against the GOPās terrible candidate. And because of that we are all at risk that Terrible will prevail.
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You got it 
What? Superdelegates exist so the party establisment has control over prospective candidates. They do not exist to do anything but represent the status quo, unless Iām misunderstanding your post somehow.
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