The Democratic votes on the pair of resolutions from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., were not enough to overcome universal opposition from Republicans.
Still, the votes represented a watershed moment in the party’s relationship with Israel and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel had continued to enjoy strong support from Democratic leaders, despite outrage from the base over the war on Gaza. Sanders said the votes signaled that party leaders are finally taking note.
“This is where the American people are. The polls are very clear: The overwhelming majority of American people do not want to continue to give weapons to Netanyahu and his horrific wars in the Mideast,” he said. “I think the Democrats have caught on to that. It took a little while, but they caught on to that. But Republicans, I think, are standing in opposition to millions of their own supporters.”
Bruh, I’m not even the other guy you responded to, so maybe cool your jets a bit. I’m also not a Democrat. I’m not even US. I was poking fun at “We won’t let Democrats hold office until they apologise for genocide” by wondering whether you’d let Republicans hold office then, or whether they’d need to apologise too.
Me not begging you for forgiveness for a party’s policies means I want the other party to win? That’s one hell of a false equivalence.
It also implies that you’d rather let Republicans win if the Democrats don’t come crawling, in which case I don’t see the meaningful difference between actively or passively supporting the Republicans.
Oh I understand your confusion now. Let me clarify. We tankies only have the magical powers to control if democrats win office that conservative democrats think we have. We can’t control who actually wins. If a Green, PSL or, Republican candidate got enough votes there’s nothing us tankies could do. Sorry.
And don’t feel bad about your confusion, it’s a common misconception. Especially for someone not from the US, you must be unfamiliar with US politics and culture. Everyone in America knows about this, it’s just like the three shells.
You not groveling will probably be fine… probably. You’re not from the US as we’ve already established. But if you were a conservative American democrat that wanted democrats to win, the tankies have already decided that if they don’t see groveling they won’t use their democrats winning power. I’m sorry that’s all I can divulge from the tankie meeting at this time. But just know we have greater considerations for our choices.
I personally was an advocate for the democrats winning in the last meeting but I’m just one tankie.
Okay, I jist now realise that I probably ate the onion hard on this. Good job!