cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21289050
An inconvenient truth for Jill Stein, the Green Party protest candidate for president, is that there are only two candidates who can win the presidency on Nov. 5, and she isn’t one of them.
The other inconvenient truth for her and her avowed progressive supporters is that every protest vote from the left against Vice President Kamala Harris is a vote for former President Donald Trump.
Harris being unable to win votes because her policies suck and because she can’t win a debate with herself isn’t really a voters problem, it’s the candidate’s problem. She wants those votes, she needs to have policies that make people happy and willing to vote for her. She doesn’t get them “by default”. Also shitting on people for “stop the genocide” being a “single issue vote” is such a bad take, it’s not even funny. Shows the complete lack of empathy and the self righteousness of Harris voters.
Yeah. I get that we have to vote for her. But she’s just using Trump’s fascism as a cudgel against voters to push her own shitty policies.
If she genuinely thought the election was life or death she would compromise on Israel, rather than saying we’re the ones that have to keep compromising.
I get that it’s stupid not to vote or vote for Trump because she won’t back off on genocide - but everyone calling that out needs to call out that Kamala could fix that entirely by just deciding to be on the right side of history.
This would be a slam dunk election if they’d stop supporting genocide.
If, woulda, coulda. Judge a person by their actions, not an imagination of them that “could” be. People simply don’t see Gaza and Palestine as an important issue. They’ll ask you how dare you, when you point that out. They’ll say they are pro Palestine. And then they’ll vote for someone who supports the genocide. The “g” word basically lost all meaning in the US. It’s treated as unavoidable, people have given up completely and are returning to normal. After all, it all happened almost a year ago!