<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp84878f09yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18px;"><div id="ydp84878f09yiv8394851414"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18px;" class="ydp84878f09yiv8394851414ydpc2062d29yahoo-style-wrap"><div id="ydp84878f09yiv8394851414ydpc2062d29yiv4060214014"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18px;" class="ydp84878f09yiv8394851414ydpc2062d29yiv4060214014yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr">We're in the closing days of the most bizarre U.S. election campaign in my memory. According to Barack, N.C. Lt. Gov. Robinson, the Repugnant candidate for governor, is a self-described "Black Nazi" who wants to bring back slavery.</div><div dir="ltr">I know that one's hard to beat!</div><div dir="ltr">But it gets worse! </div><div dir="ltr">Robinson will be defeated on November 5, rather than riding into the governor's mansion on the coattails of Trump's predicted N.C. victory.</div><div dir="ltr">But here's what's worse: </div><div dir="ltr">Trump could narrowly win in the electoral college while losing the popular vote.</div><div dir="ltr">Or he could narrowly lose the election, refuse to concede, and contest the election by casting doubt on its legitimacy and creating chaos in the electoral college, throwing the election to the House of Representatives.</div><div dir="ltr">The critical voter block that will guarantee either outcome are female Trump voters, almost all of whom are white, and most of whom are not college graduates and are predominantly postmenopausal.</div><div dir="ltr">This raises what is for me a burning question: why would <b>any woman</b> vote for Trump?</div><div dir="ltr">And especially any woman who could conceive?</div><div dir="ltr">Why would any woman not deeply understand that she is personally under threat the second <b>any other woman</b> is personally under threat?</div><div dir="ltr">As well as being a member of a large group that is now directly under attack?</div><div dir="ltr">I just don't get it.</div><div dir="ltr">So, given the racial and gender gap in the American electorate, even if <b>every</b> white male voted for Donald Trump, he would <b>have to lose</b> if every female plus every person of color voted for Kamala. Right?</div><div dir="ltr">Based on this logic, the reality that I just can't predict that Trump will lose is deeply disturbing.</div><div dir="ltr">So I've tried to plumb the mystery of why <b>any</b> female (including my sister, who has voted for Trump twice before) would be determined to vote for Trump despite all the indisputable evidence that electing Trump in 2024 would be disastrous.</div><div dir="ltr">I think it comes down to this: <b>a cultural backlash against global change that is perceived as both virtually inevitable and threatening to the survival of their traditional female gender identity roles.</b> </div><div dir="ltr">This perception of a diffuse but global threat to their sense of security in their traditional sense of self can lead female Trump voters to unconsciously self-destructive behavior, in that they can vote for Trump while at the same hating him personally as the embodiment of a threatening male dominance that they have had to put up with in their intimate familial relationships.</div><div dir="ltr">In short, females voting for Trump perpetuate the ancient archetype of female subservience.</div><div dir="ltr">In my humble opinion!</div><div dir="ltr">So why are any female voters so profoundly stuck in this personal dilemma? Of rebelling against the dominance of a male establishment by voting for a fascist wanna-be dictator who exudes a shrunken and impotent sense of male dominance while he attacks the American Constitution?</div><div dir="ltr">Perhaps those of you who are female can see more deeply into this contradiction than I can manage. </div><div dir="ltr">The best I can suggest is to place this existential disturbance somewhere in the area of "cultural impoverishment", and perhaps in the category of being "spiritually vulnerable" to what we used to call "brainwashing". And thus resistant to reality-based messages that contradict personal beliefs that are determined by a myth system.</div><div dir="ltr">I invite your responses.</div><div dir="ltr">And if you're a registered voter, don't neglect to vote!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Marshall</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Finally, I just can't get why any woman in our group would insist on trashing Kamala. Yet here's what Susan Fertig posted on Facebook:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:f38e188d-d1c3-49c5-a0b8-ff27b712e8db@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="max-width: 526px; width: 100%;" data-id="<f38e188d-d1c3-49c5-a0b8-ff27b712e8db@yahoo.com>"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">P.S. Maybe Trump thinks of the electoral college as another iteration of Trump University! A scam he can manipulate to get what he wants.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>