…it was trending this way before the election. And after it the polling has been consistent and, as Israel accelerates its genocidal behaviour both in Gaza and the West Bank, the polling will only get worse for them.
We are talking about 77% of Democrats believing a genocide is taking place. Not only that: but half of US voters think the same. Six out of 10 voters oppose Washington sending more military aid to Israel.
It really should be a no-brainer. That it won’t be is an indictment on Democrat leadership who, not just here, but in ALL areas, are simply failing to meet the moment. The establishment are out of touch with the base.
Most of them are.
47% of Palestinians in Gaza are under the age of 18. They are children. NONE of them voted for Hamas in 2006. Most weren’t even born then.
And we don’t use opinion polls to determine whether people should be eligible to be genocided or not.
This simply isn’t the case.
Ammnesty International have called this a genocide. As have Human Rights Watch. The UN Special Committee. And the the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention. Along with a broad consensus of most genocide scholars. There is currently a case at the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of committing genocide and the the case was strong enough the court ordered a number of provisional measures in order to prevent genocide.
If Israel actually were taking a lot of effort to avoid civilian casualties, then all of these independent organisations and individuals wouldn’t have been able to make their cases. Instead we have dossiers of evidence, hundreds and hundreds of pages of evidence, that show this isn’t the case. I summarise the evidence in this post in another thread. I’m happy to address this further with you in that thread if you want.
I think characterising what Israel has done here, including deliberately engineering a famine that has killed hundreds so far and will kill thousands by the time its all over, as merely “deeply flawed” demonstrates the real problem with “American ideals.” We wouldn’t call what Hamas did on October the 7th just “deeply flawed.” It was an atrocity. A warcrime. Almost everyone, including me, thinks those responsible should be bought to justice.
We shouldn’t be afraid to just call it what it is.
But the Democrat establishment/leadership can’t both have it both ways. Israel both can’t be their “most important ally” that gets unconditional support, funding and weapons AND “I’m sorry, we have other priorities more pressing than stopping the slaughter of people with our bombs.”
If they have other priorities then end the support, end the funding, stop the weapons. Its what they should have done when they had power. And now that they are out of power, and allegedly have “other priorities” according to you, its what they should be pledging to do now if reelected.
Because otherwise, one would have to concede that Gaza actually IS a priority. Just not in a way that will end well for the Palestinians in Gaza.
The danger of, as you say, “not caring about the people of Gaza,” is that eventually what happened to them is going to happen to you. That’s what creeping authoritarianism is. Its why people have been yelling “abolish ICE.” “Defund the police.” “Stop cop cities.” They could see what was coming and tried to stop it.
And what that eventually means if that you get the government you deserve. America is funding this genocide. They are providing the bombs that are killing the Palestinians in Gaza. They are turning a blind eye to the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. This isn’t just what happened under the Republicans. It was the Democrats as well.
That “vocal minority of people” weren’t complaining that “the normal person wasn’t loud enough about being anti-genocide.” They were protesting the fact that the President of the United States was funding and supporting that genocide. That was a perfectly valid thing for them to do. It’s what one would expect people to do in a democracy.
The people that protested the genocide no matter who the President was were not responsible for the election result. I think the result was a fair reflection of what America (and much of the rest of the world) has become. If you want to turn that around: people need to start caring again.