If you care about Gaza, do not dump rocket fuel onto a raging fire. Show up and vote against Trump.
Bernie knocked this message out of the park: https://youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY
No question. Trump tried to start a war in the Middle East by assassinating an Iranian general but was stopped by Covid.
Biden has been absolutely pathetic on this. Disgraceful and waste of resources
Well, now I definitely won’t vote for him!
We can all be thankful for no longer having to that. Hopefully Harris is better but we’ll see; I’m doubtful
Sure, but they can still do better. People expect them to.
EDIT: I’m not saying people shouldn’t vote for Harris. They should. They have to. But the criticism about her and Biden still supporting Israel the way they do and sending weapons, ammo, vehicles is very much valid. People want them to stop supporting Israel in their unfettered carnage against the Palestinians. We can only hope that when Harris is elected she’s gonna pull a 180 and completely stop. And the only reason she’s not saying she wants to right now is to not lose a substantial amount of votes from zionists. At least that’s what I hope. But in the meantime, the genocide is still happening. People are still being murdered. Soon there won’t be anyone left to defend and it’ll be too late.
EDIT 2: I don’t know why people assume that by simply criticizing Harris on her support for Israel, people are saying not to vote for her. That’s not even the point. Get a grip.
Oh boy, I’m high and feeling chatty. Bag of wind incoming:
Progressives do want better, but the moderate faction, who don’t post on Lemmy, is much larger and they think genocide is keen. If all the progressives unimously said we won’t vote for a Democrat that supplies Isreal, it might not have even had an effect on her platform, we’d just get Trump. The moderates have more money and REALLY support genocide.
That said, using the slippery slope of Tea Party all the way to Trump has been an excuse that has now turned the moderate democrats much more conservative. The border is going to be a horror show under her. It’s a complex situation and progressives are a smaller (but growing) group. The best thing to do is keep swelling our numbers and voting. We still have to compromise with our liberal Democrat allies, but they still recognize they’d lose without us, so they are throwing progressives a few more bones every year. We are getting more candidates elected in lower positions, where the power to change really lies.
Going from America today to the good kind of socialist state will be gradual and take generations. We have to play ball while being vocal and voting in big numbers. It has to evolve from capitalism, like we see in many other western wealthy countries. Tankies want it now, with violence to take and violence to hold. Families executed en masse to keep power for which they have no mandate. You’re really gonna wanna get that public support if you don’t want a warlord dictator in charge.
That’s a long ass reply for nothing. I didn’t say not to vote for Harris. I’m not encouraging people to not vote for Harris. I never said that in my original post. I’m just saying that people expect them to do better than just being less worse than Trump on that one point. And I think that’s very valid. Don’t you? I mean is Harris untouchable when it comes to criticism? Can’t we criticize her stance on that one topic even though we want to vote for her?
