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Ed Burmila's avatar

There's a strain of politics that sees what an unliveable hell our highly educated, Very Smart elites have created and insists that idiots off the street could do better (or no worse). I understand why people think that makes sense, but the thing is, it doesn't.

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I couldn't agree more. And I'm willing to do the hectoring: people on the left have a very profound political and ethical obligation to vote for Joe Biden in November. It is the only way to stop something even more obscene––hard as that is to imagine––than what is currently happening.

I listened to the Macklemore protest song and found it both powerful as an indictment of US actions and truly frightening for the vow to refuse to vote for Biden. God help us if that becomes more than a cathartic release.

Biden all too accurately represents the failures, moral and political, of US policy in the Middle East. So I get the fury at the prospect of giving him a vote. My own anger rises when I think of how so many voices have been desperately trying to get the US government and/or Americans to exert some leverage against Israeli actions through peaceful means. But calls for *peaceful* opposition through divestment and boycotting were met with scorching opposition and scorn––and yet look where we are, in the exact place that those in the BDS movement had been predicting and warning.

Step one is do whatever is necessary to step back from the precipice of what Trump (+ Christian nationalists) and Netanyahu (+Jewish settlers and fundamentalists) would do. And that means you have to vote for Biden.

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