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Well yeah. What irritates me is that leftists aren’t asking for anything that big from Biden this time. They just want their government to stop funding and facilitating a genocide. They just want Biden to stop being wishy washy and come out definitively against this genocide, and take actions to discourage, and I can’t stress this enough, a fucking genocide.
And he’s saying “no.” And then democrats are trying to shame leftists for not voting for someone who won’t stop helping another country commit genocide.
It’s fucking insane.
He knows the pain of loosing a child, why is he supporting something that is causing 10s of thousands of parents to loose their children?
*losing
*lose
Your point stands though. It's baffling. Literally the only good thing you can say is that Trump would have tried to send US troops by now.
Because they aren't white children, and therefore they are entirely expendable in the eyes of the United States and Israeli political systems.
Moore predicted the next presidential election will mirror Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016 if Biden does not demand a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. The filmmaker argued that Biden will end up losing battleground states like Michigan by a slim margin because voters upset with his support of Israel will stay home.
“Be a politician for once. What does a politician want most? To get reelected,” he said. “Why are you guaranteeing possibly losing the election and Trump being back in the White House? What is fricking wrong with you?”
That's the worst part.
Biden wants us to believe the worst thing that can happen to America is trump in office.
And he's right.
But instead of logically realizing that means he should be doing what voters want, he thinks that should mean he can do anything he wants, and if we don't like it that's not his fault.
It's exactly the same as Hillary in 2016.
Neoliberals don't want Republicans to be less extreme, they want Republicans to be so terrible that it makes the neoliberal standing next to them feel like a good option. Even if that means sometimes people like trump becomes president.
So start sharpening the knives! Support grassroots leftist groups in your area. Support your local union, if you're a member, and maybe talk with them about what politicians they want to endorse.
The Democrats will only move further and further right, until they are indistinguishable from moderate Republicans, but right now every year a Democrat is in power is time for leftists to organise with the intent of breaking off. I've been getting a lot of hope from the pro-Palestinian protests I've been going to, I think they can be a great place to network with leftist groups if you're looking.
The Democrats will only move further and further right, until they are indistinguishable from moderate Republicans
First of all, wrong verb tense, and second, "until" implies they stopped when they reached that point.
The Democratic Party has been right of Eisenhower for a while now.
i've said this before, and i'll say this again: when the Dems lose, don't blame the Trump voters or the tiny amount of 3rd-party voters. They should blame themselves for not getting the gigantic bloc of non-voters to vote blue because they ran a candidate that people hated.