Here is the ugly truth (which I hate). Nobody is coming to save the Palestinians. The Democrats won’t stop the genocide and the GOP will accelerate it. Even if Jill Stein won the presidency, she would not have a single vote in the House or Senate. She would be completely powerless to do anything about Gaza. Veto? She’d get overridden in less than 24 hours. The fact is that the Palestinian genocide is not on the ballot in the US, but a whole lot of other issues are.
The struggle to reign in Israel, make them pay for their actions, force those complicit within our government and media out of power, and ultimately help survivors rebuild the nation that was brutally stolen from them is going to take a massive democratic (small d) uprising from the ground up. We need to start at the local level and work our way up. This is literally what the Republicans have done for decades and why they hold so much power.
So yes, lets fix our democracy. Let us get rid of the two party system amongst a mountain of other changes. But to do so, we have to have a democracy left to save, which we won’t unless Trump and the GOP is decisively trounced this election. American Democracy, or what is left of it, has cancer. We need to cut it out.
Adding on to this: review your down ballot candidates! There’s a pro Palestine candidate in my House race with other good policies as well. One vote has a lot more impact for House races.
Here is the ugly truth (which I hate). Nobody is coming to save the Palestinians. The Democrats won’t stop the genocide and the GOP will accelerate it. Even if Jill Stein won the presidency, she would not have a single vote in the House or Senate. She would be completely powerless to do anything about Gaza. Veto? She’d get overridden in less than 24 hours. The fact is that the Palestinian genocide is not on the ballot in the US, but a whole lot of other issues are.
The struggle to reign in Israel, make them pay for their actions, force those complicit within our government and media out of power, and ultimately help survivors rebuild the nation that was brutally stolen from them is going to take a massive democratic (small d) uprising from the ground up. We need to start at the local level and work our way up. This is literally what the Republicans have done for decades and why they hold so much power.
So yes, lets fix our democracy. Let us get rid of the two party system amongst a mountain of other changes. But to do so, we have to have a democracy left to save, which we won’t unless Trump and the GOP is decisively trounced this election. American Democracy, or what is left of it, has cancer. We need to cut it out.
Adding on to this: review your down ballot candidates! There’s a pro Palestine candidate in my House race with other good policies as well. One vote has a lot more impact for House races.
“I will never vote for genocide” incoming