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Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party.
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I voted 3rd party in the election in a swing state and would do it again today.
The Democrats need to internalize the political cost of supporting Israel. If they want to win, they have to drop Israel.
I don’t think that is a lesson to take away here
A party with more support for Israel won so if that was the issue then it seems they didn’t support Israel enough
Seeing as centrists dems cant win without the left I dont think your point matters. The left isnt about to make any deals that include genocide, period. Not hard genocide, not diet-genocide. Harris could have won by breaking from Biden and calling Bidens actions genocide, but she refused to and she lost the voters. And if the next dem does the same they will lose the same. Its really that simple. And yes, the people that left their ballot blank or voted third party will do the exact same thing again, even as Trump burns the country down.
If we have to burn a country to the ground with murderous war crime enabling policies, our system does not deserve to exist either.
America’s far left are centrists
Your point of burning the system to the ground i can get behind but your proposal of doing that by letting fascists decide how to rebuild it instead of using violence (if you’re a terrorist) or public protests (if you’re a pacifist) is not something I would suggest
By taking a tougher line on Israel than Biden? Possibly yes.
No, that could have completely sunk her campaign. Because "genocide" is hyperbole. Just because people here rarely bother to point out that "genocide" is obvious hyperbole, does not mean that the vast majority of voters do not know that using the word "genocide" is obvious hyperbole.
(1) Biden didn't have any "actions" in Gaza. That was Hamas and Israel
(2) War crimes are not the same thing as "genocide". Genocide means trying to exterminate an entire population.
(3) A war is not the same as war crimes. There has to be intentional killings of civilians.
Are you happy with the current administration's Israel policy though?
The voted third party so I imagine not.
Except unless they had been lobotomized, they knew damn well that their vote was being thrown away and that Trump would be the likely winner.
Which is tact approval of Trump and everything that came with it.