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AOC takes more steps toward 2028 run for president
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So you don't like her Israel stance. Understandable. But there are big forces at play here - she simply couldn't turn her back on Isreal, it would be the end of her career and possibly life. She said some bad comments of Isreal but she also made some moderate comments, and had a little push back; times were a bit different then, that was before Isreal just started to murder civilians blatantly en mass. I think most of those metrics are a bit unfair due to Covid effects.
And no, the war in Iran wasn't a forgone conclusion. Yes military action was likely due to trump fucking up the agreements and the desire not to let Iran get nukes.
Your points are valid to some degree but I think you are being overly critical. And I wonder why?
Because neoliberalism cannot improve things. The US has two effective choices because Americans are too stupid and too lazy to vote third party; if one is a fascist, and the other is the reason fascism flourishes, one will be 'overly critical' of both possible choices.
People will not vote for more of the same when they've been suffering. People will vote for change and chaos long before they vote for 'hurr durr every thing's fine the fact your life is worse is fox news misinformation your experiences don't matter I will just keep doing what's made your life this way.'
This means, if you run a campaign like that, you are implicitly supporting fascism. This isn't a surprising or new strategy, it's the exclusive reason why Obama, a junior senator with a conservative if not far-right voting track record, was able to win the presidency under the democratic ticket. He promised change. It is why Trump won. It is every single analysts' reason for why Trump won. He promised change. He promised to be an outsider. He promised to not do the same thing as any of his predecessors.
It is why Biden won, on the campaign promise of changing from Trump's nonsense.
Harris lost for the same reason Clinton lost for the same reason Romney lost for the same reason Kerry lost for the same reason Gore lost for the same reason... you get where I'm going with this.
If the next democratic presidential candidate promises to "return to normalcy" or "return to the biden era" or "bring back civility to politics" or anything that suggests they are not going to bring radical change, they will lose. It does not matter if they have tits or not. It does not matter if they are Chinese Black Mixed with a cock on their forehead and a literal conjoined twin that looks like a demon baby growing out of their stomach. It does not matter if they are a white rich peodphile (gavin Newsom).
Every single honest political analyst has been screaming at the democratic party since before Clinton became the nominee in 2015. Just promise change and be as visible as possible in trying to follow through. Do not pretend things are fine when they're not. Do not cater to culture war nonsense. Mention how fucked people are economically, and how you're going to fix it, and why you ARE NOT A "NORMAL" POLITICIAN. If ANY candidate does that this next election, D or R, they will win. Period. Regardless of race, religion, sex, or whether or not they 'appeal' to voters tastes.
No, it's just before liberals started admitting that Israel was blatantly murdering civilians en masse. This had a lot more to do with a Republican being in charge than the actual blatant mass murder of civilians, which had been going on since October 2023.
Because you like Harris and don't want to accept that someone can have a valid reason to hate her guts.