1) Jesus Christ. Firstly stop putting words in my month. Let me break my thoughts process down. It doesn't matter anymore, but whatever. The idea is if Harris was in office, because corpo Dems are spineless cowards we as voters would've had WAY more power to bully them into making policies we want
2) to see, or straight up voting them out for more progressive or third party candidates. Effectively anyone you actually cares about what happens in Ukraine or Gaza. Unfortunately now we have zero power to do anything, I thought these next midterms might have went in our favor, but...
3) with all the gerrymandering that's about to happen, we as voters are about to lose any power we would've had. Trump is not the only evil, I'm well aware of how awful Biden and Harris are. But, like, what do we do now when even our limited power as individuals is being taken away.
I disagree "we" are powerless at the moment. How did you vote in the Democratic primary in 2024? Do you live in a swing state? (Don't know if said this before, but I disagreed with Biden's Ukraine policy. I'm not in the "we" that agreed with it.)
4) I'm not going to sit here and say it isn't an awful decision to make, because yes Biden and Harris didn't do shit for Gaza but now we have absolutely zero recourse. Now we have three countries in immediate crisis with absolutely no power to do a damn thing about it. How is that better?
Adding that it is curious liberals don't notice that Trump has adopted Biden's approach to Israel 100%: "scold" Netanyahu without results, announce ceasifires that never happen, use air drops to deflect criticism while helping Israel block the UN and starve Gazans. No ice cream but no different.
One way to look at this is a version of the trolley car problem: We were all on a speeding bus or trolley aiming at tens of thousands of children in a crosswalk. Yes, I yanked the emergency brake, knowing people aboard the bus would be killed, the trolley was unlikely to stop completely and >>
2> the bus might spin out and kill all the kids. But I felt we had no right to close our eyes to keep going for our safety. We're a rich nation with lots of ways to utilize our influence and power to solve our own problems. Palestinian kids are poor and defenseless. I won't keep killing them for us.
3>You are not without resources to stop the genocide, and to stop Trumpism. You survived his inauguration (actually so did 2 million Palestinians who got a ceasefire). The collapsing of American democracy and American empire is a crisis Americans made and have to spend their own lives to fix.
Sorry -- I just think it's crazy to think we have no power, but maybe you don't have power.