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In reply to the discussion: The debate over whether Hillary should be our candidate is over... [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)minorities trying to breach the halls of power, she's dammed if she does, and damned if she doesn't? WTF is she supposed to do? Throw herself on her sword and get fired in a day? Or stick around, make the gains she can, and make it easier for the next woman or minority to grace the corporate hot seat? I guess if you've never been a female or minority (or both) having to eat shit from the dominant culture, it's easy to take that kind of attitude, but real life is Very Different indeed. She did the very best she could with the tools at her disposal--and that's pretty much the assessment of anyone and everyone who doesn't have an agenda opposed to her--like, you know, the GOP.
The only way you change the way corporations do business is to change the attitudes of the people who are making the business decisions. People want Clinton, no spring chicken, someone who came up in the STFU Woman and Make My Coffee Mad Men era (jurors, please note Extreme Snark in the event of a frivolous alert), to suddenly come out as Wonder Woman and "tell those fellers OFF!!!"
Yeah, that would earn her a one way trip to the corporate elevator going down--and they'd probably just give her the shaft without even waiting for the car to arrive on their floor.