The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in Ireland

For years, I used to phone-bank for Democrats during the big election cycles. I haven’t done that this year, because… I don’t know, the pandemic or something. I’m sure the Biden-Harris campaign probably has organizers around and they could give me a call sheet, but honestly… as I get older, I sort of understand more and more that most people know who they’re voting for by September anyway. So by calling them, you are possibly harassing them or annoying them. Still, many voters on the fence genuinely like the attention of people calling them or speaking to them in person. You never know. It turns out, the Duchess of Sussex has cold-called voters. Hm.

The Duchess of Sussex has cold-called people to ask them to vote, Gloria Steinem revealed, claiming she “came home” for the presidential election. The duchess, who as a member of the British royal family could not share her political views publicly, “came home to vote,” Ms. Steinem said.

In an interview with Access Hollywood, Ms. Steinem was asked how Meghan inspired her.

“She has a kind of stereotype over her head that is ‘princess’…The whole idea of ??’princess’ is a problem. We [America] had a whole revolution to get rid of royalty. Meg is herself smart, authentic, funny, political. She came home to vote. The first thing we did, and why she came to see me, was that we were sitting at the dining table where I am and we cold-called voters.. Said ‘Hello, I’m Meg’ and ‘Hello, I’m Gloria’ and ‘are you going to vote?’ That was your initiative.”

[From The Telegraph]

Wait… did Gloria have a call list or not? Were they just going through the phone book or something? No. I doubt it. If you have Gloria Steinem meeting with the Duchess of Sussex, of course someone gave her a call list. Surely, what they were really doing is cold-calling potential donors to various feminist and political campaigns?? That would be a much better use of everyone’s time, to have Meghan calling Emily’s List donors or Democratic Party megadonors. But of course, if Gloria admitted that, that would be “politics.” Lordy, I hope Meghan is actually doing more than cold-calls to potential voters.

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