@Raggedy Ann ... so I tend to agree. IMO, Obama was Bill Clinton's third and fourth term. However, Obama is narcissistic enough to believe that Joe Biden will somehow preserve his legacy. Yes, Obama did the dirty work in taking down Bernie, but Hillary installed her choice for Vice President in Kamala Harris. Also, looking at the lineup of speakers at the Democratic convention tells it all. There were more Republicans than Democrats featured and the second day was reserved for the neocons. The Democratic party is now officially the party of war.

Bernie turned his back on his own movement and gave it all up but got nothing in return. Not even a crumb. The Republicanization of the Democratic party is now complete. It is totally disgusting to see. But the DNC "won" their real battle and that was to destroy the left. They really do not care if Trump wins. He represents a fund raising bonanza for the Dems and they do not even have to legislate.

They no longer even try to hide their corruption.

I think it goes all the way back to Clinton and preserving the neoliberal position.

@Linda Wood

In 1870, a full 50 years before the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States, Louisa Swain cast a historic ballot for the general election in Laramie, Wyoming. She was voting thanks to a law passed the year before in the Territory of Wyoming, giving women over the age of 21 the right to vote and to hold public office.

"Voters had to be a citizen or swear an oath that they were seeking citizenship," says Kim Viner, a docent at the Laramie Plains Museum, which meant that the right did not extend to Native Americans and Chinese immigrants, who were excluded from citizenship at the time. Black women, officially, were able to vote under the law, but it's unknown if any did. "In Laramie there were only three black women in a population of just under 800," Viner says. "The Laramie [news]paper did note that 93 women voted in 1870 but did not mention any names other than Louisa Swain."

As such, Swain became the first woman to legally vote at the same level as a man in the United States. The territories of Utah (1870), Washington (1883) and Montana (1887) would follow, and, in 1890, when Wyoming was admitted to the Union, its state constitution granted women voting rights. In 1893, Colorado became the first state to pass women's suffrage into law through a referendum.

source: Smithsonian Mag

Oregon was a latecomer, adopting women's suffrage in 1912, although they had managed to have a female governor for a few days in 1909...

I'd happily swap Carrie Shelton for Kate Brown anytime.

it has to do with this?

https://www.insider.com/when-women-around-the-world-got-the-right-to-vot...

When women got the right to vote in 25 places around the world

New Zealand: 1893

Finland: 1906

Finland, which was part of Russia at the time, adopted universal and equal suffrage in 1906, and women voted for the first time in the 1907 election. The legislation was spurred by a general strike related to the 1905 Russian Revolution. It granted women the right to vote and stand for election.

Russia: 1917

Following a massive demonstration in Petrograd in 1917, women in Russia won the right to vote. They were also able to hold public office.

United States: 1920

Is it possible Putin relishes our slowness relative to Russia about women's rights? And therefore Trump is a Russian stooge for celebrating women's right to vote?

Again, I see so many assertions that our support of Nazis in Ukraine is good because it's anti-Russian. Suddenly, Susan B. Anthony is a Communist because she worked for women's rights?