Hierarchical Patriarchy, Immoralists, Racists, Sexists, and the 2024 Election

Throughout the Vice President Kamala Harris presidential campaign we heard “save our democracy”.  This call suggested that VP Harris’ opponent was an existential threat to democracy and had to be stopped.  Constituents from various factions: conservatives, liberals, Republicans, Democrats, private sector, public sector, all appeared on countless media shows warning us of the danger.  Well, VP Harris did not win, yet many of the political media pundits were quick to extol the virtues of a democracy that “worked” because “the People” were the final arbitrators in deciding who would be president beginning on January 21, 2025.  If that is the case, then “the People” have a much bigger problem than saving democracy.

Being subservient to a hierarchical patriarchy is not

the only reason VP Harris did not win the election.  

She lost because so many of “the People” are racist, 

sexist, and immoralist.  Be clear these “People” come 

from all cultures, ethnicities, races, genders, ages, and 

political affiliations.  They come from lily white 

suburbs and chocolate inner cities.  It wasn’t the 

rhetoric of the opponent that was persuasive, it was 

too many of “the People” not allowing themselves to 

fill in the bubble for a Black woman.  Because of  that, 

women will have a greater struggle for quality health 

care, Putin will get Ukraine, Netanyahu will get Gaza, 

the rich will get richer, and the middle class will get

poorer.  Unfortunately, many of “the People” reside in 

the middle class.

There, simply, are too many people in this United

 

States society that cannot and will not support a Black 

woman for president.  The experts can analyze all they 

want.  They can say VP Harris should have done this, 

or the Democratic party should have done that.  It 

doesn’t matter unless someone figures how to make 

“the People” less beholden to a  hierarchical 

patriarchy and willing to change their divisive, and to 

some extent, destructive attitudes, and behaviors.  We 

must find a way to resolve the cognitive dissonance 

that “the People” have that won’t allow them to elect a 

Black woman even when the opponent isn’t qualified.  

If the Democratic candidate had been a White male, he 

would be the one entering the White House in January, 

2025 because the character of the Republican 

candidate disqualified him from any serious 

consideration.

Exhaustive analysis of why the 2024 election resulted 

in the way it did can be done from now until Kingdom 

Come.  Some will argue that certain demographics 

didn’t provide the expected support.  Others will 

suggest there just wasn’t enough time for the public to 

learn about VP Harris.  There will also be some who 

will believe that her opponent ran an “excellent” 

campaign.  When the whole story is told somewhere 

down the road, these reasons will only be ancillary.  

The real reason that VP Harris will not be president 

for the next four years is because “the People” could 

not let loose, not even for one day, their prejudice and 

bias.  That their reverence to a hierarchical patriarchy, 

and of their racist and sexist tendencies would not 

allow them to vote for a Black woman.  My, my, what 

a loss.