Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said policy differences toward Israel between her and President Biden won’t stop her from supporting him in the November general election.
“Of course,” Omar said Tuesday, when asked by CNN’s Abby Phillip on “NewsNight” whether she would vote for Biden if the election were held that day, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “Democracy is on the line, we are facing down fascism.”
“And I personally know what my life felt like having Trump as the president of this country, and I know what it felt like for my constituents, and for people around this country and around the world,” Omar continued. “We have to do everything that we can to make sure that does not happen to our country again.”
I guess your answer to the age old question of “what would you do if you were in Germany when Hitler was rising to power” is:
“I would dwell on all the problems with his opposition, and then sit smugly that I did the right thing in pursuit of ‘perfect’. It’s not my fault that Hitler took power, and I wash my hands of everything he and his followers are doing”
To put it more plainly - loudly complaining that Biden is bad, dems are bad, etc etc is polarizing people against voting blue/Biden. You may suck it up and vote blue in the end, but look around. Lemmy is full of hardline progressives that have stated they will refuse to vote for Biden in the general election if he doesn’t cut support for Isreal.
Criticism is fine, but it’s extremely important to keep it in perspective, and remind people to vote blue regardless, because it is not an exaggeration when we say we are literally up against fascism and tyranny.
To put it succinctly, support for Gaza is not on the ballot. Support for continued democracy is.
What kind of democracy is that?
Err… the US is a constitutional federal republic, not a direct democracy. So, the answer is: N/A
So support for continued democracy is not on the ballot then?
Trump has literally said he wants to be a dictator, so it’s more of the same or war and chaos and mass arrests and oppression
Sounds like cutting off arms supplies to Israel is a bargain then. Moderates should be happy to compromise on that in order to support continued democracy yes?
Sure, but he doesn’t actually have the power to do that unilaterally without consequences as some people think.
Are those consequences worse than discontinuation of Democracy?
Considering the potential consequences includes the risk of losing the election to Trump? They’re the same picture.
Not explicitly, no, it is not. If anything it would be a continuation of our constitutional federated republic, but that’s not spelled out either.
Is our constitutional federated republic important to the people who want to keep supplying arms to Israel?
I don’t know. You would have to ask them.
Well, given they’re (apparently) unwilling to give up sending weapons to Israel in order to defend this constitutional federated republic I’m gonna go with “no”.
I’m disappointed but not surprised. American munitions is one of our few industries in great demand worldwide, and lobbyists from arms companies are extremely numerous in DC.
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Uh huh. So what you’re saying is that you actually won’t (and probably didn’t) hold your nose and vote blue because you realize what’s at stake. So your above arguments were in bad faith. Got it.
Peace.
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