
A far better course of action would be actual candor about current realities: Joe Biden’s moral collapse is enabling the Israeli government to continue, with impunity, its large-scale massacre of Palestinian people. In the process, Biden is increasing the chances that the Republican Party, led by fascistic Donald Trump, will gain control of the White House in January.
Source: Opinion | Biden’s Complicity in Gaza Is Making It More Likely Fascist Trump Will Win | Common Dreams
Obviously, Biden wants it both ways. … Still, any American president who, quite unlike Trump, seriously tried implementing truly humane, progressive policies — notably universal single-payer healthcare, a significant reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions, military spending, a genuine anti-war effort, and increasing the minimum wage while also reigning in Wall Street abuse/corruption [etcetera] — would likely be assassinated.
Some statistics show, interestingly, that around three quarters of Americans support a number of ‘socialist’/public programs, notably universal health care and some form of guaranteed income plan [a.k.a. welfare].
While I find that the Republican party, like its federal Conservative party here in Canada, is a moral write-off altogether when it comes to humane social policy, the DNC also refuses to allow genuinely fiscally progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders as its presidential nominee, regardless of what Democratic Party members/voters want.
I recall that every county in West Virginia voted for Sanders in the 2016 primaries, yet the Democratic National Committee declared them as wins for Hillary Clinton. [Even the New York Times is hostile toward Sanders’ ideals and desires for disenfranchised, low- or no-incomed Americans.]
I find it arrogantly presumptuous of the DNC and party (etcetera) to expect poor citizens to vote for an establishment Democrat candidate with thinly veiled ties to corporate interests and who’s not going to adequately improve the poor person’s lot in life — simply to vote out or keep out an undesirable, hated Republican. And, of course, to wait in long bad-weather lineups for the privilege.
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