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You'd have to be willfully ignorant or mentally unfit to say it's not certain that Israel is committing war crimes in the face of indisputable evidence that not only are they committing war crimes, they're doing it with the munitions Biden keeps giving them
I still don't understand how him going around Congress to supply munitions wasn't illegal considering their use was to commit a genocide.
So when Biden says
I don't think it's a good thing.
And according to the article, the percent people who agree with me is increasing.
Only 64% percent of Americans now say it's a good thing...
Which sounds like a lot, until you remember like half of Americans are trump supporters who will never vote D. And they want us to be a "world power" for all the wrong reasons.
And 64 minus 50 doesn't leave you with a very large number...
Makes sense. It's not like it's the American populous that's the world power. When we speak of US interests, they are exclusively defined by a fraction of 1% of all Americans. If the rest of us benefit from US foreign policy it's just a happy coincidence.
My interests are served by feeding people and preventing violence, which is not what our government does.
But every election makes me feel less and less American so maybe I don't count anymore.
The policy preferences of average Americans have been shown to have no statistically relevant impact on the passage of legislation. Unless you are a wealthy contributor, your opinions don't count, and they never have.
We had a chance with Bernie and we blew it. Another chance will come, but I don't see it on the horizon. Until then, we're stuck in societal damage control.