You Don't Need Permission to Be Angry, Ladies [The Confluence]

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Excerpted from You Don't Need Permission to Be Angry, Ladies, by Riverdaughter

We just sat through eight of the most reactionary years in our nation’s history. George Bush has dragged science back into the stone age. He’s eroded whatever safety net this stingy ass country gives women. There we were, thrilled with the prospect that one of OUR gender, who was the absolute best candidate hands down, was going to take over the White House and start putting it all back together again. And she was done in by her own fricking party. Hillary Clinton could survive the media attacks. She rose above it. She could withstand the attacks from the Republicans. She eventually earned their grudging respect. But she could not survive the backstabbing manipulations and betrayal of her own party in the service of a man who wasn’t even qualified to serve as her apprentice.

Damn straight we're angry.

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