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There's No "Progressive Foreign Policy" Without a Reckoning for Dems Who Supported Genocide
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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Come mid-terms I'm going to proudly vote democrat everywhere I can so hopefully we can get some control of the country again.
Bingo.
I'll think about Palestine after my country stops being run by actual fascists and Americans stop being executed in the street and our Constitutional rights stop being violated on a daily basis.
And, coincidentally, by voting Democrat, I am doing the most beneficial thing I can for Palestine because THERE ARE NO VIABLE THIRD PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES.
What state was going to flip to Harris if ALL of those green party voters flipped Democrat? You can't name one, because there isn't one.
Reactionary centrists got Trump elected. Period.
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world you can't just look at Green party voters because some people very likely also stayed home instead of voting for the same reason. If you could also count those it's possible one or more would have flipped.
That said, it's always a combination of factors so it is still partly to blame even if we assume it wouldn't have done it alone.
You can't argue against my first point. We literally have the numbers. This isn't speculative. We measured this.
Stein (G): 862,049 votes,
Kennedy (I): 756,393
Oliver (L): 650,126
De La Cruz (S): 166,175
West (I): 82,664
In no state election would the greens have even come close to moving the results of that race. And if you argue that the green votes actually belong to the Democrats, you'd have to concede that both Kennedy's and Oliver's would belong to the Republicans. In which case Trumps victory would have been even more secure.
In the most charitable interpretation, third party votes in 2024 helped Democrats and hurt Trump. If we make some demographic assumptions and treat it like an instant run-off, reassigning third party votes would put Trump even further into the lead.
Third party votes in 2024 were historically low and had almost no impact on the outcome of the election.
You must take lessons in how to miss the point and dodge the question while responding to something that no one said, to argue against something no one claimed.
It's not just about third-party voters, it's also about non-voters. Not people who can't vote, and only partly about people who aren't registered to vote. It's about registered voters who didn't vote, either because they were lazy, busy, didn't have transportation, or because they were deliberately boycotting the vote. More registered voters abstained in 2024 than there were voters for either candidate.
Laziness can only be addressed with civics education. Busyness can be addressed by making election day a federal holiday and making it illegal for employers to schedule double-shifts that day for businesses that are open. Transportation can be addressed by bolstering public transit infrastructure and adding state-funded shuttle services on election day.
The boycotters can only be addressed by convincing people to ignore all the anti-election propaganda which is being peddled on social media. If leftists actually believe in harm reduction, they would understand why voting for Kamala Harris would have been magnitudes better than allowing trump to win...
Please, spare me with your pedantic, pedagogical narcissism. The only ones in this room who need lessons are the ones who insist on an approach to electoralism which has consistently, repeatedly failed to actually win elections.
Lets just take your institutionally ignorant approaches as an example:
Its August of 2024. You have 3 months until election day. NOTHING you outline could be accomplished on that timeline, so its UTTERLY FUCKING MEANINGLESS.
That's not why people don't vote you fucking moron. They didn't vote because the candidate was pro-genocide. They TOLD You why. YOU didn't think it was important that Democrats provide an option that people WANTED to vote for, so people didn't vote. They told you why they didn't vote. Stop making up reasons that aren't borne out by reality.
How does your point in any way refute that voting for Democrats is the most beneficial thing for Palestine? Unless you’re trying to say that by voting for a third party you actually helped Democrats win more than you would have by voting for them?? Your point was a non sequitur.
Don't wait for midterms, vote in the primaries for the most progressive candidates. We should want strong candidates in the general who aren't compromised by corporations and who run on a progressive economic platform. This is what it will take to make a Democratic win a true victory rather than a brief respite from only the most visible aspects of fascism.