What do the majority of politicians now think? Because they've shown for the past 100 years that they'll disregard popular opinion in favor of their own every time the two conflict.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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Biden’s approval rating for his handling of the situation in the Middle East, at 27%, is his lowest among five issues tested in the survey. This is because far fewer Democrats (47%) approve of how he is handling the situation between the Israelis and Palestinians than approve of his handling of the economy, the environment, energy policy and foreign affairs, broadly. On those issues, no less than 66% of Democrats approve of Biden.
Only further contributing to Biden’s low rating on the Middle East situation, just 21% of independents and 16% of Republicans approve of his performance on the issue.
Wasn't there something about Americans and not getting representation? I recall that being a big deal at some point in America...
The DNC could have a slam dunk victory if only they'd run a candidate who wasn't pro-genocide
But all the party leaders take AIPAC money, they'd rather trump be president than a Dem who refuses to fund a genocide.
Don't blame voters for having standards, blame the DNC for caring more about how Israel can afford their genocide than preventing trump from getting a second term.
blame the DNC for caring more about how Israel can afford their genocide than preventing trump from getting a second term.
The DNC shares the blame along with our shitty election system that prevents third parties from being viable, and allows money to buy whichever politician they like, etc.
Even if the DNC dies and gets replaced with an actually leftist party, the new party will just rot from the inside out until we fix these things.
As an American, I've been anti Bibi/IDF for a while.
Here, 5 months ago:
Feels good to be able to say you were one of the few on the right side of history when Genocide happened.
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Are most Americans Russian shills now?
The worst part is that I actually thought you were serious for a second (please tell me you're joking).
I'm mocking lemmy's pro-genocide centrists who immediately call anyone who opposes Netanyahu's genocide a Russian shill, yes.
Most of the people I've seen here are against Israel, even the ones who are against Russia.
Good for you. The centrists who love that the US is supporting the genocide they've always wanted scream "Russian" when anyone suggests that the US should stop supporting genocide.
If you've never seen it, try being critical of the US' support for Netanyahu.
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this comment made me feel the breadth of human emotion in one bite sized sentence, good one sksksksks
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So now will Biden do something?? Hmmm?
He is threatening to wag it
He did something!
U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel
The new arms packages include more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, according to Pentagon and State Department officials familiar with the matter.
Genocide Biden will give more weapons to Israel.
Didn't think I'd see this day for decades.
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