249
Democracy rule
(lemmy.ml)
I need y'all to understand: Biden isnt losing votes from the far left. He never had those votes, and could never get them.
He's losing the votes of Muslims and Arabs in Michigan and Philly. He's losing the votes of moderates who are watching Israel's final solution in horror. He's losing the votes of Latinos and Haitians who see the southern border is getting more militarized and more violent every year
[Edit] to be 100% clear: If you oppose Israel's war on Palestine, but plan on voting for Biden this November,this post isn't about you.
IMHO, over the decades, if you asked America’s Dems why they wanted to give aid to Israel, you’d likely hear that they wanted to help Jewish people to defend themselves, not that they wanted to help Israel attack its neighbors.
Now that Israel is aggressively on the offense, in a way not seen in decades, the Dems have to turn the cruise ship around so people don’t assume not aiding an offensive action ≠ supporting antisemitism.
Half of my family is Jewish-American, and it’s taken a few months for them to come around and understand that not supporting offensive action ≠ antisemitism. After WW2, and years of experiencing antisemitism, their shields are up. They immediately start to worry when people start aggressively scrutinizing a Jewish community, because that has usually been a precursor to some pretty bad shit.
I kind of get why Biden has felt the need to slow walk this. The history has made this a complex and nuanced thing.
Unfortunately, moving slow isn’t great for a people that are starving.