Male/female is just not an important metric to me. You're either capable to do a job or you're not. But based on democratic shallowness I expect their next "new" presidential candidate in the next cycle to be a Latino. They've determined that the office they are running for is not a serious job so searching for a candidate based first on color & sex is completely appropriate to them.
Of course you don't think it's a big deal. You're a self-centered white male.
White males have completely dominated the Presidency and party nominations for over two centuries. If you aren't a white male, you tend to notice shit like that, and you tend to feel there is a serious need to change it.
That's why when Trump pines for the good old days, he is (knowingly or unknowingly) pining for the days when women and darkies knew their place and when homos stayed in the closet.
It's a big deal when a
centuries old blockade is broken. A YUUUGE deal.
What does my skin color have to do with it? I stated my reasoning. Are you therefore suggesting that only white males are capable of judging someone's merit based on all factors and not just superfluous ones?
I am saying that when women and minorities have been locked out of so many institutions and privileges which you take for granted, it is a big deal when they break down those barriers.
You have no idea the message you are communicating from your insulated perch.
The GOP claims to be the party of Lincoln, and yet it is the Democrats who have been breaking down those barriers for over half a century now.
It should have been the Republican party. Instead, people like you communicate something quite the opposite.
When the GOP selects a guy like Trump who pines for the old days which he says were great, he is communicating he wants us to go back to a time to which women and minorities never want to return.