
dnc could produce someone who says they will do things for us, but if they don't denounce israel then they won't get votes... like the democratic nominee could say i'm gonna tax the rich, but never speak a word about israel and since he never denounced it then a republican will win bc that one sentence is more important
I think a Dem win is inevitable after this current administration, but a refusal to condemn Israel is going to seriously hurt any candidate running blue. That isn’t just my opinion, that’s what the data shows so regardless of what either of us think it’s a very simple strategy that should be easy to follow
well ya I think it would be easy, but there's also a large independent base that they've gotta think about and the republicans who are fed up. it's like they've gotta find a way to say that to appeal to everyone, but whatever they say won't be good enough for some people although it's what they have to say in front of cameras regardless of their true thoughts and ahhh it's all infuriating
If they do what you want they’ll lose. Elections have never been about winning over moderates or the other party’s members, but about getting your people to actually go and vote. And for the record independents hate Israel too (and a meaningful part of Republicans). It’s really only evangelicals (antisemitic death cult), like half of Jewish people (a small voting bloc) and the military industrial complex (the main reason we support Israel) that like Israel.
It would unironically be better for JD Vance to win in this circumstance. If a pro-Israel, conservative dem were to beat Vance, in 4 years we’d have the second coming of Hitler as president. Trump is the symptom not the disease, he is the direct result of neo-liberalism not working. Unless there is actual change, fascists will continue winning, and unlike Trump they will likely be both ideologically motivated, and reasonably competent.
It’s literally a fact dude. If Gavin Newsom or whoever else is president, we are getting someone infinitely worse than Trump in 4 years after the conservative Dem does nothing and gets blamed for Trump’s bad economy. Your so called incremental progress is one step forward 10 steps back, dems will take 10 years just to undo Trump’s damage, let alone to actually make net improvements. Vance is setting himself up to run as an anti-war candidate in opposition to a fervently zionist democrat.
Vance can go on as many podcasts as he wants to and complain about war, he was the one who failed in peace talks vs Iran while Trump and Rubio were yukking it up at a UFC fight (not that that last part matters). I do agree with you that Dems should do better in picking a nominee tho
I’m not saying Vance is actually anti war (he believe’s in nothing). It just seems like he’s preparing to try to flank the Dems on the war issue “I was always against the Iran War”, and I am pretty confident that if Dems nominate an Israel-loving warhawk, that it might work. Dems for instance massively hate Israel right now, but one of the only major public figures talking about Israel is Tucker Carlson (an antisemite who is fine with what Israel is doing in principle)