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Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members
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The thing I'm noticing now is a deep stratification between Democrats who are begrudgingly forcing themselves to vote for Biden because a second Trump presidency basically means the end of the United States if it wasn't already inevitable, and Progressives who are refusing to vote for Biden because of his tacit support of the ongoing genocide in Palestine, who feel it doesn't really matter who they vote for because the AMIC ensures that bombs will fall and innocent people will die regardless of who's in the White House.
And the thing is, Biden has achieved a lot that goes quietly unnoticed. $130 billion in student loans debt relief, the $35 cap on insulin, gains in employment and reduction on inflation, to name a few accomplishments. But America's been circling the drain for a long, long time, and the refusal to admit it, and hold accountable the people responsible for it (because as much a sin it is to engage in bothsidesism, those people bankroll campaigns for team red and blue) is what will end up being the death knell for democracy in America, and even if it's not, the earth is falling apart faster than we can fix or escape it.
Me, personally? I'm voting for Biden, but I'm not holding my breath for hope in this lifetime. Suicide rates are the highest they've ever been and it's not hard to see why.
I think the real stratification is between Democrats who acknowledge that Biden is culpable in no small part for Israel's current impunity in executing this genocide, and those who want to pretend otherwise, either claiming that Biden is actually slowing Netanyahu's hand (despite all evidence to the contrary, including Netanyahu's public repudiation of calls from the US to avoid civilian casualties), or who just rationalize the issue by saying that because Trump could be doing worse, that makes Biden's actions okay.
Back during 2020 my dad and I were discussing Biden, and I told him that my opposition to him was based on his outdated views, not because I think he is a bad person. Sadly, Gaza is making me back off on that; I think that when taken together with his other policies (like still being tough-on-crime and pro-cop), I think he is ultimately the exact kind of person that MLK Jr. was referring to when he denounced the White Moderate.
He is just so incredibly paternalistic and arrogant, and it's literally getting thousands of people killed. And his refusal to drop from the race (which has caused other Dems to not run at all, out of fear of splitting the vote), despite polls and just the atmosphere out here, means that the additional deaths that Trump enables will also partially be on Biden, because right now he's clearing the metaphorical landing strip for Trump's second term.