With less than two weeks to Election Day, the Democrats are bringing out Gloria Steinem to help rally their troops.
“The outcome of this election will be determined by one factor,” Steinem writes to email recipients of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, “Women.”
Steinem continues:
And that scares the Republicans half to death… but not enough to make them actually change their anti-women policies. They still refuse to pass Equal Pay laws. And they’re still perfectly comfortable denying women their basic human right to make decisions about their own bodies.
Instead they’re relying on tired, sexist tropes to appeal to us. Women will only vote if voting is like dating, getting married, or breaking up. At least that’s what Republicans seem to think.
This election is our chance to show them that their relentless sexism will not stand — in fact, it will cost them their seats in Congress.
That’s why I’m emailing you today. I need you to step up right now and make sure that Republicans who rely on sexism will lose on November 4th.
Are you in?
Instead they’re relying on tired, sexist tropes to appeal to us. Women will only vote if voting is like dating, getting married, or breaking up. At least that’s what Republicans seem to think.
This election is our chance to show them that their relentless sexism will not stand — in fact, it will cost them their seats in Congress.
That’s why I’m emailing you today. I need you to step up right now and make sure that Republicans who rely on sexism will lose on November 4th.
Are you in?
Daniel Halper is author of Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine.
