This blackmailing of Biden by threatening to facilitate another Trump presidency is such bullshit. As Biden has rightly said, democracy in America is on the ballot, and that is a far, far, FAR more important issue than a temporary flare-up in a decades-long conflict in the Middle East. Biden has to appease moderates if he is to prevent Trump from winning. He, therefore, doesn’t want to engage in a MAJOR foreign policy shift that would scare moderates and distract from Trump’s legal woes. You don’t have to love Biden or the Democratoc Party, but Biden has been doing politics practically forever, which, if nothing else, means that he knows better than anyone on Lemmy how to beat Trump. Don’t make perfect the enemy of good.
I am just as frustrated by the Michigan + Midwest Palestinian/Muslim/Arab community picking this as the moment to die on that hill, particularly since, you know, Trump’s liable to ban Muslims from entering the country if he gets in again. Like, if he had gotten reelected, I’d bet a year’s salary that he’d be ordering the USAF to carpet bomb Gaza with B-52s like it was the Tet Offensive.
But the fact remains that those critical demographics have picked that as their line in the sand, and you can’t just flip a switch and change that entire community’s opinion. So the options have become:
- berate them for that choice, and likely further alienate them, which will likely suppress their turnout in the general election
- come up with a more coherent and less asinine and hypocritical policy to apply to the clusterfuck of a situation that is Gaza these days, and actually drive some voter turnout in some really important regions.
I’m on the same page, for what it’s worth. Trump must be stopped. I’m just consistently frustrated by the constant unforced errors and clumsy messaging that the Democratic Party is so good at.
