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Most voters want a ceasefire, but few in Congress support one
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^Alt text for screen readers: Most voters want a ceasefire, but hardly anyone in Congress supports one. This chart shows the percent in favor of a ceasefire in Gaza. Among Democratic voters, 80 percent; House Democrats, 8 percent. Republican voters, 56 percent; House Republicans, 0 percent. All voters, 66 percent; all House members, 4 percent. Data comes from House Resolution 786 and an October 20, 2023 poll from Data for Progress. More at stephensemler.substack.com.
Because the politicians know that if they propose/push for a ceasefire then the whole world will SCREAM hypocrisy over US response to 9/11. There is no way to get away with being that overtly "Do as I say not as I do" high-horse.
Now as for the people, most, in retrospect, think the war on terror was if not an outright sham at least a wild overreaction in terms of leading to 20 years of war. When the mission people supported was "Take Osama bin Laden out".
Then let them.
We learned our lesson from Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is a shame that most other people didn't learn the lesson 10 trillion dollars later and after all our hard work evaporated in less then 3 days.
Most of us learned our lesson. Some of us didn’t. Clearly our politicians fall into the latter group.
And let them call us hypocrites because it’s true. Let’s just admit it and move on instead of making the same mistake again. 
There's a saying in German: "Konsequenz heißt auch Holzwege zu Ende gehen".
Loosely translated, that means something like "Being consistent means also walking the wrong paths to the end".
I’ve actually heard that one before. That’s a good one.