Biden has failed to act on, and even abandoned, most of his major campaign promises, so it is not surprising that polls show declining support for the Democratic incumbent in the 2024 election.
However, what is new is that this dissatisfaction for Biden, particularly because of his open support and continuous funding and approving arms shipments for […] genocide in Gaza, is fueling a national pressure campaign to dissuade voters from considering reelecting him.
Organizers of the #AbandonBiden campaign, initiated by Muslim leaders in the U.S., began rallying support in October in nine swing states with sizable Muslim and Arab voting populations.
Anyone who claims to care about Palestinians or just generally the US not doing evil shit (or directly supporting it) and is whining or complaining about movements to dump Genocide Joe
supports genocide (whether they say so or not. Supporting Biden or refusing to not reject him or supporting Trump are all genocidal stances)
is not a serious person as far as politics goes (and probably generally speaking)
All the liberals and many self-labeled leftists (I would call that a false label, but ok) first justified the genocide stance, and now they’re trying to ignore it and distract from the genocide by focusing on “bad actors” on the pro-Palestinian side; it doesn’t much matter, ultimately, if the “bad actors” are actually pro-Palestinian or not nor what their exact stance on Israel is or isn’t, the entire goal is to be talking about them. People such as Claudine Gay who is a Zionist (as almost all libs are- so she’s not special) but wasn’t sufficiently bloodthirsty in her Zionism and wasn’t sufficiently racist enough to condemn people for peacefully protesting an ongoing US-backed genocide. And the news has spent days worth of coverage on a person (and I don’t intend any specific disrespect towards her, because she simply isn’t worth caring about) who quite literally does not matter. She’s a glorified fundraiser in one person’s body. The face of America’s “great academic institutions!” and really nothing much more.
But the news, run by liberals of course, has spent alllllll this energy and time lying about protestors and the nature of the protests, using horribly worded defense from ex-president Gay (because she’s a Zionist and incapable of defending pro-Palestinian protesters. But she also didn’t want to condemn a movement against obviously horrific war crimes the US is supporting/doing), twisting everything into universities defending antisemitism instead of what they’re actually doing which is defending Zionism, and zero focus on Genocide Joe himself (haven’t heard much from him since Christmas) or his cabinet or Iraq War-esque cronies and clowns who are totally incapable, in the same way as Gay, of saying “yes, Israel is doing genocide and ethnic cleansing, and yes the President supports it.” Instead they call perfectly-crafted legal documents, using the beloved US-dominated neoliberal international laws, “baseless” and such.
So, I dunno. Who knows what will crack or when it will crack, but this split in the brains of liberals, the ones who have any conscience anyway, is widening day by day. They’re all experiencing the same brain fuckery that Gay and the other presidents had in front of Congress where every fiber of their being (I have to assume for my own sake) wants to scream “you don’t give a shit about Jews or anyone else!” When they keep falsely claiming and just blatantly lying over and over about simple phrases like “free Palestine.” Literally just those two words. Not even the river and sea portion, nothing else, that means “kill Jews!” to deranged Zionists. So I have to wonder when the liberals will reach some crisis of contradictions where something must change. They must choose between openly celebrating genocide, like Biden and his spokesmen are basically at this point (and since the beginning), or rejecting Biden, rejecting Zionism, and ultimately rejecting the democrat (and obviously, no shit, republican) party.
I’m pretty sure that contradiction will be settled AFTER Biden is gifted the nomination and AFTER he loses to Trump, which he clearly will at this point (of course anything can happen, but if things continue as Biden wants them to, he will lose badly). Their choice will not be the choice of justice but rather the “easier” institutional choice to side with the US state, to back Israel no matter they do, and to continue to spiral the US down the drain as the world wrenches itself from 30 solid, basically uncontested, years of US domination. Every single day is a day that Biden, et al. could steer the US for a softer landing in coming decades. To stave off desire for retribution from the rest of the world.
People will forgive a LOT of wrongs done to them/their ancestors once the healing process actually begins. Very few people desire blood just for the sake of vengeance. But if you keep pushing and pushing and pushing while you lose power, I don’t know what other outcome Americans who support Biden (or yes yes Trump, but does that even warrant mentioning? Of course Trump sucks dogshit) expect 10, 20, 50 years down the line if they keep supporting genocides now, stamping out domestic protests to genocide now, etc. The blowback for this shit doesn’t seem far off in some imagined future. The blowback feels like it’s already here or nearly here and just for the sake of self preservation any serious person who lives in the US should be demanding the US adhere to that aspirational statement of “never again” in every possible meaning. That means never again back genocide. Never again do a genocide. Never again ignore genocides, done by us or others we support or not. Never again force our nation’s will upon others by use of sheer might, military, financial, or otherwise.