supporting genocide doesn’t help in getting reelected.
Straight from the article:
It’s plausible that Biden’s support for Israel’s obliteration of Gaza would be especially outrageous to young and/or nonwhite Americans, who are exceptionally likely to sympathize with Palestine. And the president’s foreign policy has surely alienated some Black, Hispanic, and Arab-American voters under 30. Yet the young and nonwhite voters who’ve been turning on Biden overwhelmingly identify as moderate or conservative, and are presently supporting Trump or RFK Jr., both of whom are even more ardently pro-Israel than the president. Further, a recent poll of 2,000 voters under 30 from the Harvard Institute of Politics found that only 2 percent considered the war in Gaza their top priority. It therefore seems doubtful that Biden’s complicity in Gaza’s devastation fully explains his problem with these traditionally Democratic constituencies.
Inflation is currently at a reasonable level as compared to last year, but quality of life per dollar is still way the fuck down. The “economy” is good but that doesn’t help the average person on the street which is absolutely being felt more by younger folks with lower paying jobs.
Issue number one is holding companies accountable. But even if that were to happen it’s not going to bring down the prices and let people afford to live between now and November.
The time to fix this issue was two years ago when companies were crying about production costs and posting record profits. Instead people are waiting on wages at the bottom to rise to meet their new financial obligations and it’s just not happening for the rank and file American.
Top priority is always going to be things closer to home like housing and economic security, climate action, etc. The conservative state media machine and foreign “troll” farms they (along with Putin, Israel, etc) finance never stopped after winning 2016. Cambridge Analytica just evolved into multiple, more advanced, spin-offs.
My theory is that the younger gens are completely and entirely disenfranchised. Regardless of Trump being logically, objectively, worse… They see the non-stop corruption and collusion between politicians, corporations, and the judicial system; the enshittification and monopolization of everything. They don’t care about “the economy” when they have little hope of housing or economic security regardless. They don’t care about “the most significant climate action ever” when it’s decades too late, and they’re still likely to experience climate and ecological collapse.
Everyone has a limit. There’s only so many times you’ll go through chemo before you tell the doctors to get fucked and let the cancer run its course.
That’s more or less what the article said.
Every time he opens his mouth he invalidates their concerns? Ya think?
“The economy sucks!”
“What are you talking about? The economy has never been stronger…”
adults just can’t see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch 🤦♂️
I’m neither young nor a racial minority, but I fully understand the position of not consenting to genocide. Is this really that hard for people? What is the argument in favor of supporting Israel? I mean, I know the state is doing a capitalism, but what’s the argument to an average Joe?
I don’t think that’s the case. Things are turning shit here at home, and everyone in sight is sucking a corporate dick. There is no way out from under the corporate boot. There is no fast track to demolishing citizens united. The opulent will continue their conquest of the world without a regulation in sight. I’m sure this has many people just as disenfranchised and it directly effects us.
Israel is viewed as a force of western democracy in the middle east. If Israel went away other democracies would lose a local nation wiling to help them fight terror organizations in the region. From a day to day perspective as someone who lives on the other side of the world and is not Jewish it doesn’t affect me much. I think supporters of Israel have really failed to clearly covey the reasons they have for supporting their actions, while those opposed have a significantly easier time. The idea that “the government knows best so just go with it” is old and does not resonate with young voters or minorities.
On the other hand, the US is fairly well allied with Jordan, KSA, and states in the gulf.
The problem is that the US has become inseparable from Israel on foreign policy. I think the war on Gaza should never have begun and that its prosecution will become the current high watermark for absolute brutality.
I don’t want any single religious ethnostate running from the river to the sea. I want to have a two state solution. It is impossible with Netanyahu in power - and Netanyahu worked to secure and supply Hamas for exactly that reason. He knows that if the PA or another organization were to come to the table, he wouldn’t be able to push back.
