President Joe Biden’s support for the Israeli military offensive in Gaza mixed with student anger over police crackdowns on anti-war campus protests are complicating the work of Democratic youth groups trying to engage classmates and other Generation Z voters ahead of this year’s election.
Sorry, I’m not going to pretend that centrist Democrats are benignly bungling into this. They’re enthusiastically supporting genocide because it’s all they’ve ever wanted.
No they’re not. They’re not taking a stand at all. They’re just standing back and watching impassively like they always do.
Circumventing congress to sell Netanyahu weapons is not standing back and watching impassively.
Running interference for Netanyahu at the UN isn’t standing back and watching impassively.
Voting overwhelmingly to not condition aid is not standing back and watching impassively.
Voting overwhelmingly to fund Israel while they are committing genocide is not standing back and watching impassively.
Claiming that those who oppose Netanyahu’s genocide have ties to Russia isn’t standing back and watching impassively.
Centrists have finally found an issue that they won’t immediately abandon at the very first sign of opposition.
That whistling sound you are hearing is the sound of the point you miss completely.
Sorry, I’m not going to pretend that centrist Democrats are benignly bungling into this. They’re enthusiastically supporting genocide because it’s all they’ve ever wanted.