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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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Dumb question maybe, but is the stance on the genocide in gaza the only important one, or do you also care about their stance on other genocides, i.e. sudan, etc.?
The reason people don't like that question, is it's a "divide and conquer" approach. However most people repeating it, don't understand.
For social change, it needs a large movement. To get a large movement, everyone has to handle one task at a time, then move to the next.
Like, if you were in a hotdog eating contest, would you eat one hotdog at a time so your score goes up?
Or would you take a bite out of every hotdog in front of you?
One way you keep steadily increasing score and making progress, the other you might eat 50 half hotdogs and lose to a guy who ate 5.
So why would anyone argue against the strategy where even if everything isn't finished by the buzzer, we still made some progress?
You are already a victim of divide and conquer. Anyone has to understand that a 3rd Trump term or even a full 2nd term with house, senate and presidency will be disastrous.
If you do not vote this election you might never be able to vote again. This is what they are banking on. They want more time to disenfranchise even more people, they want to bar as many people as they can from voting.
You are hiding behind the bodies of Palestinians. You will not 'solve' this problem in one election cycle. This will take generations. Especially with the damage done by billionaires in the past 10 years.
The First step needs to be, getting as many Dems in power as possible. After that, continuing to demonstrate, tell people in power that you are still not happy with the country. Then you can let people like AOC use that momentum to bring institutional change to the supreme court, the senate- and house electoral maps, the 2 party system, citizens united, etc.
What is wrong with the USA goes so much further and deeper than Gaza.
The people who won't vote aren't hanging out on political message boards bud...
The thing is, you don't have to be very politically active to not like genocide. It's a very low bar, and that's all that matters:
Running a candidate voters want to vote for.
Spend less time trying to sway millions of voters, and focus on getting a candidate they'd vote for into the general. That's the entire point of a primary
the first step needs to be voters telling candidates they cant win if they support genocide. Anything else will lose.
As far as I know we arent causing those other genocides with an endless supply of american money and weapons? We arent exactly the world's policeman. What makes the gaza holocaust unique is that we played a role in it, and both sides of the US governments party system are corrupted by a foriegn theofascist powers interests. Sudan doesnt openly bribe our congress and brag about it.