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I’m quite comfortable blaming both the Democratic Party for being an incompetent embarrassment yet again as well as the general public for deciding that Trump’s flaws were somehow less glaring than Kamala.
Ah yes, let’s stick it to the DNC and those fake lefties who aren’t sufficiently supportive of the Palestinians by… helping the GOP opposition that’s even less sympathetic to the Palestinians win the elections and get into power.
Because surely that’ll help, somehow.
Fucking hell, sometimes I think we lefties deserve to lose for being unable to think strategically.
Trump's policy was explicitly kinder to the Palestinians than Biden (and by extension Harris, who said she supported Biden's position and wouldn't change anything) - Trump at least promised and achieved a minute ceasefire for a day or two. Biden and Harris' position was explicitly that they wouldn't do anything at all to stop the Israelis or hold them back.
Yes, it will in fact help. What's the point of voting for the Democrats when there is no functional difference between them and the republicans? Sending a signal that the electorate will not vote for the same old moribund and corrupt geriatrics who have been profiting from business as usual helps to either destroy the party (so it can be replaced) or reform it so that it actually presents a compelling vision for the future. Harris, Schumer, Pelosi - none of these people can inspire the base and every single establishment democrat politician is incapable of creating a compelling vision of the future because their obligations to wealthy donors, lobbyists and interest groups are so strong that they are unable and unwilling to do anything but make existing problems worse.
The only left wing politician in the US right now who is capable of getting people excited is Zohran Mamdani, and the democrats are doing their absolute best to destroy him. Even the "vote blue no matter who" crowd are changing their stripes and doing their best to attack him so the usual sex offenders and genocide-defenders (Cuomo quite literally joined Netanyahu's legal team!) get back into power and keep the gravy train running.
If you actually care about left wing political goals rather than simplistic tribalism the only path forward is to either take a long march through the DNC to realign it with the wills of the left-wing base (which is a path that can most definitely win elections) or completely destroy it and start over, like Mexico did. If you've seen what Morena has done for Mexico, I want that for you in the USA as well - building more hospitals and infrastructure instead of deliberately starving children to death and blowing up Yemeni prayer circles.
I'd quibble whether a ceasefire that quickly ended actually made a meaningful difference, but honestly that's not why I'm responding.
There are centrist Dems and Progressive Dems. Mamdani can excite the progressives and piss off the centrists, even beyond the DNC party figures.
That and even Progressives aren't single issue. Trump is very much not identical to Dems on other issues Progressives care about, such as Ukraine, LGBT, social safety net/homelessness, and so on.
If they were willing to accept Trump to try and force Dems to realign, I suppose that's their choice, but the daily protests suggest that if that's what they were thinking they aren't happy with the result.
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