End the material conditions that incentivise this behavior and it will disappear. If politicians are required to pander to voters instead of
bribespolitical donations sanity might return to us.They are required to pander to voters. That’s why Biden disappeared no matter how much he wanted to GenocideJoe2024.
It’s just that most voters care more about their candidate being old than them being complicit in Genocide.
I usually agree with you, Linker. But definitely not here. Lobbying and AIPAC money are the crux of this situation. If it were still illegal bribery, like it actually is in reality, the denial would not be existent.
So why do you think Biden dropped out?
That is a rare case of listening to constituents. You are right. Usually, they listen to donors over voters.
It’s not a rare case they had no choice. Biden was a guaranteed loss.
Losing just 5% of voters makes enough of a difference for the Democrats to change policy.
They listen to their donors, but in the end they cannot do that if they don’t get enough votes to get in power.
Most voters care about their candidate’s ability to be elected.
This lays the facts out pretty well, and it’s from a year ago.
https://www.justsecurity.org/90010/a-law-and-policy-guide-to-us-arms-transfers-to-israel/
It appears that the policy up to now is being used as a stick, and the message seems clear, even if it isn’t effective: We don’t want to stop giving you weapons, but your actions are making it politically difficult to continue doing so.
The question is if Kamala will push harder than Biden, or maintain this status quo. Congress could always pass a law, but there seems to be a hard line of Israel support in Congress, so that seems very unlikely.
I wanted to add: 15% of Israel’s defense budget comes from the U.S., and a lot of that is grants to buy U.S. weapons. Even if the U.S. turned the money tap off (which Congress would never do), Congress has the power to approve any sale it wants, so Israel would probably just keep getting the weapons using their own cash.
Congress would essentially need to embargo Israel to prevent more U.S. weapons from getting to them, which is never going to happen, even if ALL the Democrats wanted it, because the Republicans control the House.
So, the fewer Republicans in the house, the more leverage a non-republican president has. Vote those fuckers out
Obvious bad faith argument. You don’t care about Palestine.
