Remember how everyone was grousing that Harris wasn’t tough enough about Israel’s genocide? Well, you reap what you sow. Trump’s fine with full extermination, and how anyone didn’t see this coming is … um, interesting.
I mean… I watched multiple videos of Palestinian journalist in Gaza say neither candidate matters to their people. Bisan, for one. So, feel free to argue directly with the people being exterminated and leave the peace protesters out of your criticisms.
I’m not criticizing peace protesters, merely pointing out that their ethical stance to skip the election was not in their own stated interests.
Single issue voters will go to their graves insisting that Harris would have been just as bad. Potentially graves that they ended up in because they lost their health insurance.
Or because they caught a disease from a $70 uninspected egg.
Indeed it remains an argument between a party who was doing the genocide and a party who is rightly associated with genocide. Further still, the defeated party remains almost totally inactive in the face of increasing state violence and chaos, with local Democrats often validating some part of it as long as it is seen to hurt “violent criminals.” Bipartisan electoralism kayfabe is just a really powerful propaganda tool. There seem to always be a majority of voters who think they could have voted their way out of this, and it’s because the act of the vote is part of the manufacture of consent. This is despite bloody decade after bloody decade of state violence pointing to the contrary.
Reminds me of They Thought They Were Free ;)
Hopefully, this spurs the people who didn’t vote or voted third party because of that reason to get more directly involved in their local politics.
