Bruce Heerssen 
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@micchiato/116177072745456134
Remember when they told us not to vote for the black woman because she was the genocide candidate? Yeah.
Good times. 🙃
micchiato 🎋Harris said she would change none of #GenocideJoe.
[Disclaimer: I voted for a Black woman for #POTUS in 2024]
The point is that regardless of Harris' stance on Gaza, Trump would be even worse. I said that at the time, and I think I was right. Sure, it's voting for the lesser evil, but who doesn't want less evil in the world?
firstprimateWanting lesser evil got us to a place where we had to decide to hold our nose and vote for genocide.
Sure, the PR is better, and we can pat ourselves on the back for voting for a black woman, but it’s still the evil empire.
By any standard Biden was the worst POTUS on Palestine with Trump a distant second. Caveat: Truman and LBJ are neck-and-neck with Trump vis-à-vis support for Israel’s genocide against Palestine.
There is no such thing as a lesser genocide, and lesser evilism has done more damage aiding rising fascism than beating it.
A vote for the lesser evil, in this case, was a vote against fascism. Anything else would have been a vote for fascism. It's hard to imagine that voting for fascism is somehow the better course of action.
@micchiato
And disagree that Trump is better for Palestine. I don't think it's even close. As we speak, they're making plans about how to divvy up Palestine.
And disagree that Trump is better for Palestine. I don't think it's even close. As we speak, they're making plans about how to divvy up Palestine.
They would have divvied up Palestine with Harris too. The settler colonialist project Zionists called “Israel” is 100 years old. This is merely a late stage of a long process. It didn’t just start happening with Trump’s 2nd term: that’s ahistorical.
I find it interesting that liberals hold individual voters to moral absolutes that they do not for elected Democrats. I have lost count of the number of liberals who excused Biden/Harris in the name of political realism while appealing to power equations, cost-benefit rationales, campaign calculations, etc.
And yet any of those appeals could be made for individual voters who have practically no influence relative to the wealthy deal makers who decide the slate of candidates in the primaries. Capitalist donors pick the bipartisan choice individual voters get to make every election.
And political realism tells me that the only leverage individual voters have to try and stop campaign commitments to genocide is the threat of withholding their votes. Whether or not the refusal makes a difference in the narrow bipartisan calculus is moot. It remains the only power voters have.
The reality is that Harris could have won if she had declared herself against the genocide, like Biden had won in part because he promised not to get involved in wars in the “Middle East.” Her campaign knew it and the DNC knew it, just as many of us surmised it in 2024. She owns her own failure. She controlled her own destiny.
No amount liberal vote shaming and lectures on what individual votes meant will change that reality.