i can’t even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.
edit: well they’re not quiet now once they get called out
i can’t even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.
edit: well they’re not quiet now once they get called out
Soo…what was not voting for the less-genocidey candidate supposed to accomplish?
Can you tell me what my vote for Harris did? I got to vote for “less genocide” and get “more genocide”. Clearly, it was very important for Harris to keep out Palestinian- and Arab-Americans in swing states and bring in Republicans. Can you help me understand how that was supposed to win the most important election of all time where Republicans are planning on genociding everyone not them?
At least you tried, if you really did vote for Harris. That’s more than most vocal “anti-genocide” types did to prevent this.
I’m sure that will be of great comfort to me watching the Democratic party continue to capitulate to the Right over the next four years.
More comforting that actively participating in it.
I’ll be sure to remember that when, in the spirit of bipartisanship, Democrats vote to remove my husband’s access to HRT or revoke my cousins’ citizenship because one of their parents was an Arab immigrant.
Whats your point? You would have felt better doing nothing at all? Guess we should all just sit down and give up because we got fucked over.
Nah, I’ve been doing local organizing and worrying about more than just the top of the ticket, and even past the elections. I supported the Uncommitted movement and was hoping that Harris would actually capitalize on the moment she had when she took over, and, yeah, I cast my vote for her for all the good it did. It’s fucking sicking seeing so many sneer at the movement, and pat themselves on the back for having the moral superiority for voting for “the right person” while making so little of what is supposed to make them the right person happen. Being so unconcerned that the person they are so self congratulatory about was saying they would do the awful things and work with the awful people they’ve been saying are the greater of the two evils.
Genuinely, why did the Democrats go so hard on the anti-immigration policy and cozy up with Liz “I am strongly pro-life and I am not pro-gay marriage” Cheney? How were they expecting to sell people on the lesser of two evils when they were trying to become what they thought “moderate Republicans” would vote for? I’ve done this song and dance with the Dems for two decades now. I know they don’t value me, because they know I don’t have another option in the race, but how am I supposed to be excited myself, let alone campaign at others and get them excited for another round of getting sold out?
The problem with Democrats is that they see someone as evil as Trump, and their response isn’t, “damn, that is an evil man. We should put that man in prison.” Their reaction is, “damn. Look how evil that man is. Wait, this means we can get away with being incredibly evil ourselves! As long as we are slightly less corrupt and evil than him, we can shame people into voting for us!”
They viewed Trump as an excuse for their own misbehavior rather more than anything else.