Instead of acknowledging Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Dem politicians Mallory McMorrow and Andy Beshear complain about ‘purity tests’ and ‘litmus tests.’
  • xenomor@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Just speaking for myself, this question is absolutely a litmus test. If you, as a candidate cannot bring yourself to unequivocally denounce genocide and the state of Israel on a moral question as simple as this, I cannot trust you on anything else at all. If you have a worldview that allows you to weasel around such simple right and wrong, you are either a sociopath or have no principles whatsoever. In either case, you don’t deserve my support.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    5 days ago

    Zeteo reached out to spokespeople for McMorrow, Beshear, and Third Way to ask if they are willing to characterize Israel’s genocide in Gaza as a genocide. “Yeah, nothing says it’s a straight and not at all loaded question like asking if we will ‘characterize a genocide as a genocide,’” Bennett from Third Way responded. “Hard pass.” McMorrow and Beshear’s teams did not reply… Recent polling from Gallup found that Americans, by a margin of 41% to 36%, say they sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis. And nearly two-thirds of Democrats feel this way, compared to 17% who sympathize more with Israelis. Even if Democratic politicians are not concerned with the moral stakes, and only the politics, they should view the question of genocide with more urgency. On Sunday, Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, posted a video on Twitter, speaking to the consequences of US and Democratic support for Israel’s violence. “Democrats are finally admitting it. Harris lost support over Gaza. And here’s the thing: I was warning Biden and Harris for over a year, personally, in numerous direct conversations with each of them. I kept saying that our refusal to hold the Israeli government accountable over the destruction and genocide in Gaza was morally, legally, and politically wrong,” Jayapal said. She continued: “We kept being told, ‘it’s not in the numbers,’ that changing course was too risky or too liberal. But that’s not strategy. It’s risk aversion dressed up as wisdom. And it didn’t just shape an election, it helped shape a crisis.”

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    AIPAC money talks.

    & as https://lemmy.world/post/44104254 identified, Netanyahu seems to have “kompromat” on many Democrats…

    Both control some politicians, it seems…

    & combined they control the party.

    Effective, elegant, < shrug >

    Kompromat only works in cultures where ruthless-honesty isn’t and pretence-rules-who’s-valid.

    Churchill was an utterly-racist drunk, AND he was the guy who held England together just offshore of nazism’s rampaging.

    Both.

    Perhaps it takes more spine than a “society” can muster, to admit that people are mixtures?

    I’d criminalize bribery/lobbying, in politics, in business, all of it.

    But even that wouldn’t be sufficient, if the underlying-culture still was sooo pretence-rooted that kompromat could torque the country into obeying, through the people in politics.

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