During negotiations with the DNC and the Harris campaign, we were repeatedly told by interlocutors that Harris couldn’t meet any of our basic requests (a policy shift from Biden, a Palestinian speaker at the DNC, a statement distinguishing herself from Trump on Israel, or even a meeting with Michigan families who lost loved ones to Israeli bombs) because of AIPAC-aligned politicians like Fetterman, who might take to TV, rile up suburban white and Jewish voters, and fracture the party’s coalition in a swing state.
That political calculus alienated a key voting bloc, although likely not large enough to have shifted the ultimate election outcomes, that should be part of a durable Democratic majority. But few will ever be held accountable for that choice.
A Fetterman staffer condemning Uncommitted for not advocating for Palestinians ‘the right way’ is like an arsonist scolding the fire department for using the wrong hose.
honestly disgusted by how meager and purely symbolic the demands made by the uncommitted movement were
as if getting every single thing on that list would have spared a single life
All they demanded was basically a lip service and they didn’t get even that
They had a foolish belief in the humanity of their oppressors. That being asked to look their victims in the face would give them pause.
they’ve victims of the american empire; whoemever they vote for is going to lead to the same ends.
They successfully got Biden to step down
But then they were stupid enoufht to replace him with another genocidal politician
never forget that it wasn’t a genocide that made the american public turn on biden, it was a bad tv performance.
No, it was genocide.
It really wasn’t, he was doing just fine until he went on tv and looked like a bumbling old man.
A report had come out just prior stating that he was a old man with old man brain and it was pretty roundly shouted down in the media and here on lemmy. Once everyone saw him in the debate stammering and looking confused as his handlers tried to play it off as “a cold,” it was undeniable he just wouldn’t be able to keep up.
This is ahistorical. People were calling for him to step down for many months before the debates because of his support for the Israeli genocide.
Its true that the democrats lost the election because they chose someone else who also supported the Isrsele genocide to replace him.
But they made a similar mistake by choosing Hilary instead of Sanders. They keep loosing to Trump by putting someone too far right.
Yeah fuck those orphans and widows voting for what was objectively the lesser of two evils.
I wanted to murder their families instead of the red team. Now all I can do is sneer at them.