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Amid anger over Israel, Harris courts Arab and Muslim voters. Will it work?
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Yet I still see so many people blaming the voters who want an alternative to genocide, instead of the policies of the administration that give it unconditional military support.
Harris can easily earn so many votes, especially in swing states that she needs to win, with a pivot on Biden's unpopular foreign policy on Israel. This race should not be this close. Trump is a uniquely unpopular candidate, to the extent that even two assassination attempts didn't even move his approval rating.
Yes, and I don't care about the opinions of such people any longer. They process the harms being done in the world into a sense of entitlement that everyone should deal with that in the way they do, which is principally by finding a way to rationalise those harms as inevitable.
Too many humans are going to keep killing other living beings, and then putting effort into rationalising how this is a good thing. In my lifetime we are going to see more of anthropogenic climate change killing people, and those who (think they) have profited from such climate change rationalising how 'this is good because...', or 'they deserved it because...'.
In a world where immigrants (like myself) are treated with contempt, people who didn't migrate from countries where climate change is deadly will be laughed at.
Fix that and I will care about political decisions. Until then, I remain unconvinced that pretending that we can maintain a status quo by just pandering to the right-wing enough is of any particular value.
Do you know what's more important than profit? Life. I'd take fewer dead babies over arms merchants making money selling the means to kill more innocent people.
Martin Luther King Jr's speech on Vietnam rang very true when I read it recently. It put me back about how similar today is to nearly 60 years ago.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
I don't think Arabs in America care anymore. This past year has made it very evident US politicians don't actually care about human rights or the lives of Arabs all too much. They're just numb to it all.