There will be many men that won’t be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5 because she’s a woman.  I have heard friends, family, and others say that she doesn’t know what she is doing, and she hasn’t done enough in the last three and a half years.  Sometimes with these words the first thing I hear is that she is a woman.  But I also know that a vice president can have ideas, and discuss them with the president, but it’s the president that has the final say.  There have been many bills, including those concerning the border, that have not passed in their term so far.  Some bought up early in this administration.

Another statement that comes to mind is that Vice President Harris hasn’t explained her platform enough for them to understand.  Yet, she has gone to many rallies and to many interviews where she has explained just that.  A child tax credit of $6,000 for first-time parents to help them get their family started, an increase of $45,000 to $50,000 to help first time small business start-ups, keep working to reduce prescription costs, work on lowering food and grocery costs (including looking into price gouging), among many more proposals that focus mainly on the middle class.

If these men were paying attention to anything the last three months, they couldn’t miss the answers to their questions.  So, what is the genuine reason they don’t want to vote for Vice President Harris?  There are many reasons possible, but I personally think it is because they are afraid that this woman, or many other women, would do a better job than their male counterparts.

There are just as many well-educated, levelheaded, strong, and sharp women as there are men.  Maybe they don’t want to hear it, maybe they don’t want to believe it, maybe they don’t want to experience it, but if Vice President Harris wins, they’ll just have to live with it.  Some of those guys voting for former President Trump, that believe these things and experience four years of anxiety if Vice President Harris wins, will understand what many of us have been going through the past eight years.

So, if you feel that a women can be president but are not voting for Vice President Harris anyway, remember some of the quotes from former President Trump like this one.  The quote below can be found at ‘reason.com/2024/10/16/no-trump-did-not-endorse-a-military-assault-on-people-simply-because-they-oppose-his-candidacy/’.  The quote that is used as a response to the ‘enemy within’ issue, concerns mainly election day.  But, in my opinion, I can’t see where former President Trump would limit his actions to just election day.  His quote is as follows:

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within — not even the people that have come in and destroyed our country, by the way, totally destroying our country. The towns, the villages, they're being inundated. But I don't think they're the problem in terms of Election Day.

I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they're the — and it should be very easily handled by — if necessary, by [the] National Guard or, if really necessary, by the military, because they can't let that happen.”

If it is just for election day, does that include elections judges or any election staff that he deems are sick or radical left lunatics?  Personally, as an election judge, I don’t want to find out.

Former President Trump also likes to point to immigrant violence when talking about border issues.  Online at factcheck.org at ‘www.factcheck.org/2018/06/is-illegal-immigration-linked-to-more-or-less-crime/’ notes that he said this in June of 2022:

“Trump, June 22: So here are just a few statistics on the human toll of illegal immigration. According to a 2011 government report, the arrests attached to the criminal alien population included an estimated 25,000 people for homicide, 42,000 for robbery, nearly 70,000 for sex offenses, and nearly 15,000 for kidnapping. In Texas alone, within the last seven years, more than a quarter million criminal aliens have been arrested and charged with over 600,000 criminal offenses. You don’t hear that.”

In an online analysis of immigrant crime from the Brennan Center for Justice at ‘www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/debunking-myth-migrant-crime-wave’ you can find the following to clarify immigrant violence:

“For example, one study found that undocumented immigrants are 33 percent less likely to be incarcerated than people born in the United States. Indications of a negative relationship between immigration and crime also emerge when looking at conviction rates. In a Texas study, undocumented immigrants were found to be 47 percent less likely to be convicted of a crime in 2017 than native-born Americans. More recently, a study looked at census data over a 150-year period; since 1870, incarceration rates of immigrants are actually slightly lower than U.S.-born people and that gap widens in recent years with immigrants 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born citizens.”

Even one violent incident is not okay, whether it is immigrants or U. S. citizens.  Yet, as former President Trump complains about unchecked immigration bringing crime to this country with unprecedented results, we know that this is false.

Maybe we should just take this moment to elect a female as president?  Wouldn’t it finally prove or disprove our beliefs about women in high positions?  We’ll know your answer on Nov. 5.