I'm not buying it. All I see here is a ploy to sell old wine in new bottles. Of course, in an ideal world, we would have a Congress that looked more like the country. But I consider that secondary to getting a Congress that genuinely speaks for the country. If the best we can do in the name of feminism and empowering women politically is to get more hacks like Hillary or Feinstein or Boxer into office, then to hell with it. This ad is emblematic of a very deep, serious problem with the left right now: too many lefties are looking for someone who will save us, rather than learning to save ourselves. We're convinced that if we can just get the right person in the White House, or in the Senate, we can wake up from the long nightmare of the last 25 years and let them take care of it. I voted for Nader in 2000, and still won't apologize for it, but I still think that the energy that progressives put into pushing his campaign was a misapplication of resources. Far more important, I think, for the Greens and the few liberals still in the Democratic Party to fight small, local battles, and win city councils, mayoral races, a few governorships -- and even more importantly, to make sure that the people who support a return to liberalism know that they're not alone. Having women in office doesn't guarantee that women's voices will be heard. Hillary, who's zigged and zagged about abortion is evidence of that. So is Condi Rice. This sounds like an attempt to build a movement from the top down, and we need to build it from the bottom up.
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