Hillary would have done the same thing as Biden on Israel
Democrats have failed to fix all the insane crap Regean did because the DNC learned about how much money they were missing out on
I still maintain Bernie should run independent. The DNC ensures he will never win the primary, and it was proven by the email leak back in 2016 which is why no one voted for Hillary.
I think you all have a delusionally inflated opinion of both Bernie Sanders and progressive politics as a whole.
Bernie is a self described socialist. He lost in the primaries to middling candidates in both 2016 and 2020. He in particular has dismal performance among women over 30 and black people as a whole.
The progressive movement as a whole is even worse. At least Bernie makes an attempt to win hearts and minds. Progressives are obsessed with insane purity tests and horrible messaging that alienates everyone who doesn't already agree with them.
Look at this tweet. The whole "anyone remotely to the right of me on Israel/Palestine is morally repugnant" stuff works in echo chambers, but would get you absolutely rocked in an election.
Things could be different but they're not
We’re still doing ‘I don’t like his vibes’.
No, no, I was assured Hillary Clinton was Basically The Same as Trump and Both Sides Were Bad.
So... People tell me an election year is no time to talk about electoral reform. Every US election year. But! After the election, they scurry away under the refrigerator and stay there for 4 years. I know you have to hold your nose while you vote this time, but catch these weird centrists before they disappear and hold their feet to the fire to influence change. You deserve better than this "I'm not voting for _, I'm voting against _" nonsense. Your government is hurting all of us. Stop it, please.
Are we talking about Hillary the Drone strike Julian Assange, Clinton here? "Genocide Joe" is absolutely fucking nothing compared to her.
"Keep quiet or Ill turn this democracy around, so help me God!"
In 2016 I voted Trump. In fact before that election I mostly voted republicanish except in some cases.
You have to remember in 2016 that Hillary was deeply unlikeable, and I believe her email scandal should have put her in way more trouble than it actually did. Her platform at the time was that you should vote for her because then she would be the first woman president! The country needed something else.
Hillary was not the answer and it was the DNC's inability to read the room that lost them the election.
I fucking love Bernie but he wasn't the right guy either. He sticks to his ideals which is a fantastic quality but doesn't win general elections, which realistically needs people who are more center aligned.
I regret my Trump vote and will never repeat that mistake but it's hard to know where we'd be had it been that Hillary shyster.
I think the wheel of history turns on a greater axle than a presidential election. Look at Europe, and the rest of the global north. The machine of neoliberal imperialism has created global instability and climate crisis, and the rich are locking down their spoils with right wing nationalism.
Trump was a fluke, he'd have had more bites at the apple in 2020/2024 and eventually get a win. If not him, then some evangelical fascist.
Uhhh and today the SCOTUS decided that Trump can never be prosecuted for anything he did or will do whilst president, so actually, democracy died today. Biden won't abuse this. Trump will, and there will be nothing to stop him from enacting his dictator plans. About that, and the political assassinations, and the president for life, I think Trump is serious.
What's happening in Gaza now has been happening a long time, as President Carter said people weren't demanding change or horrified in general because ''they don't know, they don't want to know''. The passive approval has been there a long long time. Biden may actually respond to pressure, Trump will be directed by his evangelical base to stoke all out unilateral war, and he'll approve it.
Nothing here is simple, Biden doesn't control Isreal, and neither will Trump or anyone else, Trump used 'Palestinian' as a slur, an insult. He also expressed his stance against Biden as Biden not aiding Isreal MORE. Who do you think is going to effect change in the direction of ending the genocide?
If you're against the genocide, why in the world would you let the very pro genocide candidate win?
People who think our presidential elections are only recently fucked up are morons. Since basically day 1 the politics and seedyness and bullshit going on behind the scenes has always been insane.
There's some kind of narcissistic selfishness that constantly has a need for THIS time, OUR time to be the worst ever.
I mean, for the majority of the country's history, huge portions of its population had literally no democracy due to no right to vote. But I guess we'll ignore that.
We had portions of our history that were rocky as hell due to shifting balances of power between the federal branches, especially in the first 100 years.
We literally had a fucking civil war.
It's always so interesting to me how people just ignore how bad it's always been, and how many times the country did not, in fact, literally end, and yet they STILL gin up end of the country fearmongering constantly in every election cycle.
None of this is truly new.
Homer Simpson meme "Democracies all around the world!"
If Trump wins, the US will likely conduct an isolationist policy on the way forward, creating a power vacuum on the world stage, which will be likely filled in the likes of Russia and China, but that'll be the good impe... sorry, the good great power protecting smaller nations!
People still clamoring for Clinton are why we ended up with Trump and not two terms of Bernie.
"I don't like the butcher of Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria's vibes" is a bit of an understatement.
I can only attribute the fact that we didn't go to war with Iran after Iran's response to blowing up the guy who beat ISIS while he was on a peace mission to historical coincidence, since it definitely wasn't Trump's character, but 0% chance Hillary would have called off the attack at the last minute.
If Hillary had won, we'd have started a war with Iran the year Covid was starting. And then maybe had Trump in 2020 instead of 2016
Edit: Anyone downvoting me wanna say why they think the person who was so proud of facilitating the brutal murder of Qaddafi would have pulled back from the brink of war?
I say we copy XI's China or Putin's Russia:
Attack and invade all neighbors, disappear dissenters and make thought crimes against the state punishable by death. No juries, trials or any bullshit.
That's the only way to fix America; make it just as shitty and toxic as the east.
