Even inside the Harris campaign, there was dissent about whether she needed to take a more aggressive stance for Gaza.
A Harris organizer who worked on youth turnout said that senior campaign officials gave them an order: When they sent out mass volunteer or fundraising emails and people replied by asking about Gaza, they were told to mark it as “no response.” The result? They seldom ended up engaging with voters on that issue.
“We also didn’t create a new category for Gaza responses out of fear that category would be leaked. Instead we were told to mark them as ‘no response,’” the organizer said, faulting top Harris campaign leaders for failing to address the issue. “The only ‘clowns’ out there are those who were in senior leadership and decided to abdicate on this issue, who silenced a Palestinian speaker at the DNC, and who told us to ignore it every time a voter asked us about Gaza.”
Good luck with that.
Thanks but I’ll continue voting in every election, every primary, for every progressive despite how tiring and disappointing it can be and not throw away the progress made. Provided we can still do that after another four years.
Progress? What progress have you made?
Your strategy only leads to regression. That much should be clear to anyone observing history for the last decades.
You don’t see progress so be it. I’m not about to tell you what you perceive, I’m not going to change your mind here. I’m glad to see that there’s even something called The Squad in congress but clearly you don’t. So feel free to continue to not vote, not make difference at all, make no progress.
This is where we part ways on this conversation. Good luck with things going forward and the choices you made and will make and have a good day.