Organizers are hoping to send a powerful message to Biden as he continues to back Israel’s genocidal assault.
A growing coalition of progressives and anti-Zionist advocates is campaigning for voters in Michigan’s upcoming Democratic primary election to vote “uncommitted” rather than cast a vote for President Joe Biden due to the administration’s staunch support for Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.
As The New York Times reported Wednesday, progressive group Our Revolution is beginning an email, text banking and phone banking campaign to convince voters to cast a protest vote to put more pressure on Biden to change course on his administration’s Gaza policy.
Our Revolution sent an email promoting the effort to 87,000 Michigan members on Wednesday, with the message signed by former House Rep. Andy Levin. The former congressman served two terms in the House before being ousted in the 2022 election, due in large part to a fierce campaign by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to unseat him over his support for Palestinian rights.
“We need to send President Biden a message: We are outraged by U.S. complicity in the destruction of Gaza, the killing of thousands of civilians, including more than 10,000 children, and it must STOP!” the email read. “By voting uncommitted on 2/27, Our Rev supporters can push Biden to change course on Gaza now and increase his chances of winning Michigan in November.”
Levin emphasized the strong impact that Biden’s unflinching Israel support is having on Michigan voters who would otherwise consider going to the polls for him this fall. “I am working with some people who feel like they will never vote for Joe Biden, but there are many, many, many I feel will vote for Joe Biden on November 5 if he changes course,” Levin told The New York Times. “This is the best way I can help Joe Biden.”
Good time to remind your friendly neighborhood idealist that there are only two pair of pants at the pants store
Unfriendly reminder that this is a fucking primary.
Persistence of opinion and breeding apathy does exist. Friendly or unfriendly…I think the point stands either way. Everyone still leaves with pants on whether they pick them or not.
Jesus fuck, so not only do we have to “vote blue no matter who” but we have to be happy about it and not protest in any way? It’s not enough that we’re you’re slaves, we have to smile for you too!
I ran out the store with no pants on, it created a bit of a scene.
Serves them right for only offering pants that commit genocide.
Not necessarily, it’s just important to remember that a “not vote” for one is effectively a vote for the other when we protest….follow where the roads you build lead to and all that. Until we have more than red v blue in our general, this will be true.
By this logic, a vote for Trump is actually two votes for Trump.
And by this logic, every dollar you spend on things you don’t really need is a dollar donated to Trump. You could have donated that money to Biden!
And every hour you spend relaxing is an hour you volunteered for Trump. You could have volunteered that hour for Biden!
It’s literally “if you’re not with us, you’re with the enemy” - an inherently fascistic concept.
There’s nothing deep to infer here, It’s just a counting game through a gerrymandered filter. Whether either one of us like it or not, it’s the existing system. If you truly dont have a preference of the two candidates we will be given, then your lack of vote takes away nothing. The source article here is about people who might vote for Biden being encouraged to not vote in protest. I’d presume these people weren’t voting for the other guy, so removing those votes will give him the advantage. Whether that’s your goal or not, I don’t know.
My goal is to make it clear to the Biden administration that he has to stop supporting genocide or he will lose. He presumably wants to win, so he has to consider what voters want.
What you are doing, by voting blue no matter who, is actively supporting genocide by assuring Biden that he can kill as many Palestinians as he wants and you will stay loyal. You don’t get to vote for genocide and pretend like you’re stopping fascism. Fascism is already here! Even worse, because of you and blue no matter whos like you, fascism has become unstoppable. I directly blame you and people who vote like you for Biden being an unstoppable génocidair.
You’re just voting for polite fascism with a mask of civility, because Trump’s vulgar fascism is rude. Even worse, you’re attacking people who even protest against Biden months before the election because it might impact his election! You are making our protest against Biden meaningless because he knows he can rely on you to vote for him no matter what he does. You’re a enabler.
Well there ya go….two pairs of pants at the pants store: polite fascism or rude facism from your pov. Looks like you know which pair you’d rather leave wearing. Hope my comment helped!