Chasing the anti-genocide vote
I'm anti-genocide!
I've noticed that the only issue for which Jill Stein (the Green Presidential candidate) is getting any media coverage in the US this election season is the Hamas/Israel war, given her strident view that Israel is committing genocide. It also seems to be where Stein is putting most of her energy, in terms of the events she's going to and publicizing.
I'm anti-genocide also, although I'm not 100% convinced that what Israel is doing in Gaza is actually genocide. I've referred to what's happening as "negligent genocide", in which careless disregard by Israel is leading to the result of genocide without premeditation or intent, indirectly via bombing Hamas positions and blockading the civilian population from receiving sufficient food and medicine.
The Left in the US usually takes the side of the Palestinians, whereas my own position is to not support either side but to call for a ceasefire and then an inclusive democracy in the disputed region that is defined by neither ethnicity nor religion. I oppose providing weapons to either side, so I oppose the Biden/Harris policy of sending tens of billions of dollars in weapons to Israel.
There are other issues to fight for as Greens, but really the only one we hear about in the US is Palestine, and the main worry for Democrats is that Greens will attract Arab-American voters in the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin -- especially Michigan, which has the highest proportion of Arab-Americans of any state.
I think this is mainly because Democrats have been successful at fradulently stealing the Climate Change issue. By spending hundreds of billions of dollars on subsidies for cleaner energy and electric cars, while also allowing record production of fossil fuels, Democrats have convinced most of those who care about the environment that Biden is doing more to fight climate change than any other President before him. He's not, but, hardly anybody is pushing back on this issue.
Democrats legitimately have the abortion issue, and LGBTQ issues. Democrats want to have labor union issues, but rank & file union members are definitely not in their pocket (many if not most are Trump supporters), and I have particular issues with how Biden & Democrats have handled labor issues --> beginning with their failure to pass (or even really to press for) an increase to the federal minimum wage. Biden ordering an end to the rail strike was a huge "F" for me.
On war & peace issues in general, Democrats have been pushing for more military intervention around the world than Republicans have (in the era of Trump), and have gladly shoveled more money at "defense". I do give Biden credit for pulling us out of Afghanistan, which Trump also wanted to do but Trump kept getting delayed by his generals. In retrospect, Biden's pullout did appear rushed and chaotic, but perhaps there was no way to make it look orderly once we were obviously leaving.
Once upon a time Health Care was a bigger issue on the Left but only 1% of US residents choose it as their top issue right now.
I have to give Democrats credit for at least stealing, and sometimes supporting, the salient issues on the Left except for Palestinians & Peace. But even if the ONLY issue left for Greens were Palestinians and Peace, I'd vote for them in 2024. I don't believe in the US being The Superpower, instead I believe in equality among sovereign nations and staying out of any violent fights between them. There's no "national security" reason for the US being involved in wars on the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. We have land borders with Canada and Mexico and both of them are friendly. That should be enough.
I've noticed that the only issue for which Jill Stein (the Green Presidential candidate) is getting any media coverage in the US this election season is the Hamas/Israel war, given her strident view that Israel is committing genocide. It also seems to be where Stein is putting most of her energy, in terms of the events she's going to and publicizing.
I'm anti-genocide also, although I'm not 100% convinced that what Israel is doing in Gaza is actually genocide. I've referred to what's happening as "negligent genocide", in which careless disregard by Israel is leading to the result of genocide without premeditation or intent, indirectly via bombing Hamas positions and blockading the civilian population from receiving sufficient food and medicine.
The Left in the US usually takes the side of the Palestinians, whereas my own position is to not support either side but to call for a ceasefire and then an inclusive democracy in the disputed region that is defined by neither ethnicity nor religion. I oppose providing weapons to either side, so I oppose the Biden/Harris policy of sending tens of billions of dollars in weapons to Israel.
There are other issues to fight for as Greens, but really the only one we hear about in the US is Palestine, and the main worry for Democrats is that Greens will attract Arab-American voters in the swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin -- especially Michigan, which has the highest proportion of Arab-Americans of any state.
I think this is mainly because Democrats have been successful at fradulently stealing the Climate Change issue. By spending hundreds of billions of dollars on subsidies for cleaner energy and electric cars, while also allowing record production of fossil fuels, Democrats have convinced most of those who care about the environment that Biden is doing more to fight climate change than any other President before him. He's not, but, hardly anybody is pushing back on this issue.
Democrats legitimately have the abortion issue, and LGBTQ issues. Democrats want to have labor union issues, but rank & file union members are definitely not in their pocket (many if not most are Trump supporters), and I have particular issues with how Biden & Democrats have handled labor issues --> beginning with their failure to pass (or even really to press for) an increase to the federal minimum wage. Biden ordering an end to the rail strike was a huge "F" for me.
On war & peace issues in general, Democrats have been pushing for more military intervention around the world than Republicans have (in the era of Trump), and have gladly shoveled more money at "defense". I do give Biden credit for pulling us out of Afghanistan, which Trump also wanted to do but Trump kept getting delayed by his generals. In retrospect, Biden's pullout did appear rushed and chaotic, but perhaps there was no way to make it look orderly once we were obviously leaving.
Once upon a time Health Care was a bigger issue on the Left but only 1% of US residents choose it as their top issue right now.
I have to give Democrats credit for at least stealing, and sometimes supporting, the salient issues on the Left except for Palestinians & Peace. But even if the ONLY issue left for Greens were Palestinians and Peace, I'd vote for them in 2024. I don't believe in the US being The Superpower, instead I believe in equality among sovereign nations and staying out of any violent fights between them. There's no "national security" reason for the US being involved in wars on the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. We have land borders with Canada and Mexico and both of them are friendly. That should be enough.