Betty Friedan as POTUS in the 1970's ?!? Um, IMNSHO, NEUMA or No Flippin' Way.
You'd need a parade of ASB's doing major brainwashing to give her the personality transplant from activist to effective politico. She was shrill and a pain in the ass even to other feminists, much less the general population.
As Ralph Nader's found out, ferocity and dedication to principle only goes so far in politics. You could argue Betty reps a bigger constituency. Her idea of salesmanship was to whip out a bigger hammer if the smaller one failed.
As a dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat, I wouldn't vote for her, then or now. What snowball's chance in a lit blast furnace does she have with anyone independent or conservative in the 1970's?
I don't mean to be shrill or a party-pooper. There's a ton of feminists that should have had a bigger audience and stage to work with. Betty Friedan wasn't a politician. We've mentioned Barbara Jordan.
You'd need a parade of ASB's doing major brainwashing to give her the personality transplant from activist to effective politico. She was shrill and a pain in the ass even to other feminists, much less the general population.
As Ralph Nader's found out, ferocity and dedication to principle only goes so far in politics. You could argue Betty reps a bigger constituency. Her idea of salesmanship was to whip out a bigger hammer if the smaller one failed.
As a dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat, I wouldn't vote for her, then or now. What snowball's chance in a lit blast furnace does she have with anyone independent or conservative in the 1970's?
I don't mean to be shrill or a party-pooper. There's a ton of feminists that should have had a bigger audience and stage to work with. Betty Friedan wasn't a politician. We've mentioned Barbara Jordan.