Because it’s him or Trump and Trump is demonstrably worse.
This article itself is deeply disingenuous calling Biden a tiny bit better on queer rights or the environment.
They’re not even in the same ballpark. Trump is a disaster for the environment, for reproductive rights, for minorities, and for the Middle East.
I would give anything for an alternative to Biden that wasn’t Trump, but pretending that voting against Biden would somehow be better for Palestine is insane.
What if people stopped being afraid and voted for who they really supported instead of who they thought was more likely to win? someone like Cornel West or Jill Stein might actually win!
but pretending that voting against Biden would somehow be better for Palestine is insane.
What is worse than a president who actively supports a genocide? So at worst it will be still the same no better or worse if Trump won. At least liberals would oppose it instead of justifying it.
What if people stopped being afraid and voted for who they really supported instead of who they thought was more likely to win? someone like Cornel West or Jill Stein might actually win!
It’s two things. One is tactical voting, voting for a person who has an actual chance of winning. Neither Cornel West nor Jill Stein has a broad appeal outside far-left circles. Which brings me to my second point, people are, broadly speaking, voting for positions they support. It’s a big tent party and Biden has spent his career moving around to stay in the middle of the Democratic Party.
What is worse than a president who actively supports a genocide?
A president that makes no attempt at restraining Israel. Biden might not be doing as much as many people would like, but he’s doing something. The US is pressuring Israel to let more aid in, even if Israel isn’t doing enough to comply. Israel has mostly held back from Rafah so far, which seems to be Biden’s doing. And the direct Iran-Israel exchange has been kept to a minimum instead of an all-out war, also with US involvement. What could have escalated ended with Israel bombing a runway and Iran saying “whatever, not interested.”
I simply cannot imagine Trump doing this. He has a history of being extremely deferential to Israel and Netanyahu. Think moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, scuttling the JCPOA, and in the Project 2025 document considers cutting US aid (this predated the current war). He stuck his son-in-law Jared Kushner on a mission to solve the conflict and the solution was swapping some of the West Bank’s best remaining land for some desert. He loves bringing the fight to a situation. He reversed drone attack rules Obama put in place that were working to avoid civilian casualties. That is who is worse.
Biden might not be doing as much as many people would like, but he’s doing something.
This is false. Even Reagan and Bush Sr. did more to reign in Israel than Biden ever did, they threatened to withhold aid rather than just put conditions and hope Israel abide by them, you can look this up. Instead he keeps on supplying them, putting him further right on genocide than even Reagan and Bush Sr.
This article itself is deeply disingenuous calling Biden a tiny bit better on queer rights or the environment.
Yeah, the author is completely phony. Just a russian/MAGA shill.
