Kamala Harris as President Would Be a Setback for Women

By Jordan Musser

Women should hold positions of power in the United States. They can and should be leaders in politics, industries, companies, and their communities. They are capable of competency and excellence just as much as men are. Some studies even suggest that companies with women in the highest leadership roles have better productivity and better organizational structures. Ten % of Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs. Women have also proven they can be successful in politics and high judicial office. Sandra Day O’Conner served in her position on the Supreme Court for nearly 25 years. Four women sit on our nation’s highest court. 

About a quarter of lawmakers in Congress are women, a record number. Women are climbing the corporate ladder, excelling through the ranks of their disciplines, and getting elected to offices all over the country. Modern women are opening doors, breaking down barriers, and propelling us forward. 

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris stands the chance of becoming the first female elected to the office. On paper, this would be a historic achievement, given that women only began taking formal political roles in the early 1900s. 

But her election would be disastrous for our country and for women as a whole.

Feminism has undoubtedly expanded opportunities for women over the decades. But it has also turned womanhood into a box to be checked, undermining women as intelligent agents with unique talents and skills. When women are propelled forward into prestigious positions of power, whether through merit, nepotism, or diversity quotas, they speak for all women, whether they intend to or not. They are seen as trailblazers. They represent their sex in a way that is far more profound than the way a man would represent men in a similar position.

When women hold high status roles and succeed, it’s a great achievement. But when women perform poorly, their failing reverberates outward into culture and generates toxic assumptions about all women. It unfairly lends credence to the stereotype that women lack natural leadership prowess. Nothing would be a bigger set back for women than an incapable, vapid woman becoming president of the United States. Nothing would be worse for women than Harris’s election.

Her mercurial politics, if you can call them that, center more around identity politics and vibes than anything of importance. Having been inextricably linked to the Biden administration’s open border anarchy and our inflation crisis, Harris’s propensity to fail is obvious. Her political style is juvenile and her ideology is authoritarian; a noxious combination. Her speeches are canned and devoid of original, compelling content — a slap in the face to millions of Americans yearning for a constructive message. Her army of influencers is doing most of her campaigning for her, remixing and dancing her scripted remarks for artificially viral clips, while she can’t be bothered to take any adversarial questions from the press. 

When she speaks, Harris says nothing and means nothing. In the same vein as her infamous phrase, “What can be, unburdened by what has been”, she pontificates in a way that is empty and shallow. 

As a woman, I’m embarrassed to watch. We as women work hard to be taken seriously, especially in politics. Women are more educated and informed about the issues plaguing our country than ever before. There are formidable female conservative voices, such as Nikki Haley, Megyn Kelly, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who are attuned to the moment and able to articulate it well. But instead of a woman like that, Harris has been elevated to the Democratic nomination, without a single primary vote cast. She disgraces her sex by giggling on stage like a schoolgirl, faking accents to pander to certain audiences, and avoiding a real inquisition from the media on her radical record. 

It makes us look bad. Apparently, women can’t speak intelligently about affairs of state! Have we really regressed to a time when a woman’s big smile and bouncy blowout at flashing cameras matter more than our words and thoughts? We’re women! The Left, as the transgender craze has shown, loves to stereotype. Put breast implants, high heels, and lipstick on a man, and that’s a woman. Put a pretty, put-together, and politically incompetent minority woman on a podium, and you’ll YAS QUEEN your way to the White House. 

Kamala’s recent contrived social media popularity shows just how out-of-touch her fans are, too. 

The online loud-mouths who demonized cops and called for their defunding now praise Kamala’s every move, oblivious to or willingly ignorant of her crackdown on crime as a San Francisco prosecutor. 

Their strategy is to use pop culture to boost her, christening her “brat” and branding themselves members of the “K-Hive,” a spin on the name for Beyonce’s fan base. They consider a vote for Kamala a vote for women. If a vote for Kamala truly is a vote for women, then the failure of Kamala will be a failure for women, too. In our lifetime, it’s likely that we will see a female president. I hope that woman is voted into power because she deserves it, not because she’s a woman. 

In July, we all watched as former president Trump was nearly assassinated. Female Secret Service Agents fumbled their way through the emergency, causing many to question their place in the security detail. Critics’ rhetoric was, “See! This was no role for a woman!”. I’m positive that more competent and better trained females are in the Secret Service. These women looked bad, and they made us all look bad. 

When women fail on a grand stage, critics question the competency of all women. Progress for progress’s sake isn’t really progress at all. Bringing a woman into the oval office because she's a woman and popular amongst dancers on TikTok is a treacherous move when our country is at stake. When we choose to install a woman because the optics are “good,”  we hinder all women. 

We cannot gamble with our future for the sake of political correctness. We have everything to lose, and with Harris as president, we’re likely to lose it. Our power doesn’t come from electing a woman because wokeism says so. It comes from doing our due diligence in selecting a president who will best serve America. 

Jordan Musser is a wife and mom living in Pennsylvania. She’s a former USAF Security Forces officer and now enjoys writing, lifting weights, and homeschooling her children.