Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.
I understand partly what @tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world is trying to say. White men in particular won’t participate in protective voting. It doesn’t matter how much you try to convince them. Some will, but as a demographic, no.
What bugs me the most with leftists like this is they don’t understand how unsafe people feel under Trump. I used to watch Vaush. I thought he was safe. But then he went on a rant on how he “couldn’t understand why people cling to the Democrats.” He doesn’t understand that people cling to them out of fear.
A lot of us want better, but how do they expect us to leave the only thing keeping us somewhat safe, when they don’t even see our fear?