Is . . . is this where we are now? That Literally Bernie Sanders isn't progressive enough? Also, Bernie's somehow catching heat for acknowledging the five-year anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting, because for some reason that's a bad thing to do?
Is . . . is this where we are now? That Literally Bernie Sanders isn't progressive enough? Also, Bernie's somehow catching heat for acknowledging the five-year anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting, because for some reason that's a bad thing to do?
Also, Liz Warren, Raphael Warnock, and Ro Khanna ALSO aren't progressive enough anymore? That, because they're not going as far as you think they should, that they're automatically lumped in with monsters who are actively aiding and abetting genocide? When did the Perfect suddenly become universally preferable to the Good?
Please, I'm begging, just take a breath. Yes, it is a scary time. It's scary for so many people, not all of whom are in Israel or Gaza. People here, in the United States, are scared. Some are being threatened. A Palestinian child in Illinois was killed by an old dude who took leave of his senses. Synagogues are getting graffitied. Jewish parents were afraid to send their kids to school on the day that a random dude in Qatar called for a global day of Jihad, and those like me who still sent their kids were beside themselves with worry all day. Protesters supporting Palestine are shouted down and harassed, sometimes even by police. Protesters are also targeting heavily Jewish neighborhoods, like Crown Heights in Brooklyn, for no reason other to intimidate its residents.
I know that a "humanitarian pause" is not a cease-fire, and it's not as good as one, and it's not a solution. But I can't imagine a world where broad swaths of influential politicians coming out in favor of a hard U-turn in our policy regarding Israel makes things appreciably better here at home. And I also can't imagine a world where vilifying John Fetterman and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna brings a vision of a truly progressive society any closer to a reality.
I saw this and prayed that you wouldn't come in here with your mealy-mouthed sanctimonious morally weak centrism and ruin this like you do every other post about this ongoing genocide yet here you are. Just no every time I read posts on this site I actively hope you aren't there in the comments
I take all this as more evidence that “progressive” is a largely meaningless term, and the little it does signify is the avoidance of taking actual left-wing positions.
And yes, by not calling for an unqualified ceasefire, these politicians are taking bad positions on the issues of genocide and apartheid (issues that have an obviously correct position: against). They should be called out for taking bad positions, if you put any stock in electoral matters. We’ll never have actual “good” politicians in our government, but they do occasionally have less-bad positions. Almost everyone has failed in this.
Hacks like Warren have always been useless at best. Bernie gave us some hope, but little generally and less on this issue. Tlaib, unsurprisingly, has the best position.
Is . . . is this where we are now? That Literally Bernie Sanders isn't progressive enough? Also, Bernie's somehow catching heat for acknowledging the five-year anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting, because for some reason that's a bad thing to do?
https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1718039922563580076
https://twitter.com/Daniel_Sugarman/status/1718328133701562504
Also, Liz Warren, Raphael Warnock, and Ro Khanna ALSO aren't progressive enough anymore? That, because they're not going as far as you think they should, that they're automatically lumped in with monsters who are actively aiding and abetting genocide? When did the Perfect suddenly become universally preferable to the Good?
Please, I'm begging, just take a breath. Yes, it is a scary time. It's scary for so many people, not all of whom are in Israel or Gaza. People here, in the United States, are scared. Some are being threatened. A Palestinian child in Illinois was killed by an old dude who took leave of his senses. Synagogues are getting graffitied. Jewish parents were afraid to send their kids to school on the day that a random dude in Qatar called for a global day of Jihad, and those like me who still sent their kids were beside themselves with worry all day. Protesters supporting Palestine are shouted down and harassed, sometimes even by police. Protesters are also targeting heavily Jewish neighborhoods, like Crown Heights in Brooklyn, for no reason other to intimidate its residents.
I know that a "humanitarian pause" is not a cease-fire, and it's not as good as one, and it's not a solution. But I can't imagine a world where broad swaths of influential politicians coming out in favor of a hard U-turn in our policy regarding Israel makes things appreciably better here at home. And I also can't imagine a world where vilifying John Fetterman and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna brings a vision of a truly progressive society any closer to a reality.
I saw this and prayed that you wouldn't come in here with your mealy-mouthed sanctimonious morally weak centrism and ruin this like you do every other post about this ongoing genocide yet here you are. Just no every time I read posts on this site I actively hope you aren't there in the comments
"Also, Liz Warren [...] ALSO aren't progressive enough anymore"
Anymore? LOL
I take all this as more evidence that “progressive” is a largely meaningless term, and the little it does signify is the avoidance of taking actual left-wing positions.
And yes, by not calling for an unqualified ceasefire, these politicians are taking bad positions on the issues of genocide and apartheid (issues that have an obviously correct position: against). They should be called out for taking bad positions, if you put any stock in electoral matters. We’ll never have actual “good” politicians in our government, but they do occasionally have less-bad positions. Almost everyone has failed in this.
Hacks like Warren have always been useless at best. Bernie gave us some hope, but little generally and less on this issue. Tlaib, unsurprisingly, has the best position.