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Irish protesters denounce Bernie Sanders as a Zionist genocide denier over Gaza
I mean, preaching to the choir and all that shit, but I hope (hope) that all the burgers who were excited for Bernie in 2016 and 2020 also knew that Bernie was never some perfect or magical or revolutionary figure. He was our most left-leaning senator, for sure, and had a consistent voting record and general stances on things back to his youth.
In my mind I always thought basically "Bernie should be as far right as you can go politically and be accepted."
The most upsetting or depressing or whatever thing about Bernie though has definitely been his stance towards Israel. In US politics it's basically from the start accepted that foreign policy-wise every legislator and president is Hitler. No exaggeration either. Fully in favor of invasions and genocides. Maybe slightly more optics-friendly to those queasy libs, but in the end, a dead baby is a dead baby.
So I expected his Israel stance to be utter dogshit. However, at this specific time when Israel is actively doing a genocide, clearly, and has announced their intention to do so since... forever, and considering Bernie is probably not able to run for or serve another term (although maybe), like fuck it dude.
And I know he isn't afraid of AIPAC. He's the most popular politician in America. He will be reelected until he retires or dies. He's taking this horrible stance purely on ideology. That's the only reason. He actually thinks the existence of Israel is good or important or whatever and he ultimately doesn't give a shit about Palestinians.
You can hear when he speaks about it though that he knows what he's done so far is wrong. You can hear in his voice and how he speaks that he just wishes "Israel could please please be the good guys. Get Bibi out and be good!"
Bernie can't fully grasp the reality that whatever he was told in his youth and young adulthood and his entire life about Israel was a lie. It was a lie to cover up for genocide and for a fascistic state that's become totally engulfed in a bloodlust.
That he can't reckon with this reality, when he is absolutely the most free politician to do so if he wished to, no one holds reelection over an 80 year old man who is also the most popular senator and would've easily been president. He could go out and give speeches to rival the president's speeches if he wanted. He could go to rallies for Palestine and speak and shit on Joe Biden from the podium. Tell people to reject Zionism as a lie.
But he won't do any of that. And I have to say, as someone who once respected Bernie quite a lot for his lifetime of consistently listening and ending up basically on the right side of things, my respect for him has dropped considerably.
He's still the best senator... and that's incredibly fucking depressing.
People on the CTH subreddit back then would get sooooo mad if you tried to tell them Bernie was just a socdem. So many people convinced he was the real deal and "hiding his power level" or whatever.
I mean, that's just what he is. I hope those people have become more educated since then on socialism/marxism/etc.
I'd like to think we have, eh?