Bernie Sanders says it’s ‘very hard’ for young voters to ‘be excited’

[jojoju1998]

All of this just shows that the ghosts of 2016 have truly never left the Democratic Party.


Which is why we need to encourage the next generation of democrats to rise up, and take leadership. Whitmer, Warnock, Walz, Shapiro,

[Red Velvet]

https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1742269419911553440

[Devils30]

As much as I despise the far left, I totally agree with many of them that Dems would be better off with a different candidate. Biden's problem is his lack of communication skills and you cannot tell me that the party wouldn't be better off with Whitmer for example at the top.

[Comrade Funk]

https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1742269419911553440

Really depressing

[pppolitics]

As a Democrat, I can find almost any excuse to vote for Biden.

Why didn't Biden do more ...? (gun control, criminal justice reform, combat climate change, etc.)

Congress and/or the Supreme Court wouldn't let him.

Israeli's genocide of the Palestinians is different.

Biden has not only refused to put conditions on aid to Israel but has gone around Congress to send more weapons to Israel.

As a result, he is uniquely culpable.

That makes voting for Biddn such a bitter pill to swallow.

[pppolitics]

‘Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/us-supply-weapons-israel-alleged-abuses-human-rights

The US is violating its own Leahy law by allowing weapons to continue flowing to Israel despite human rights abuses.

The rules are different for Israel and allow Israel to continue to operate with impunity.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

In my experience, the vast majority of people who want a cease-fire are not anti-Semitic. Animus towards Jewish people does not drive their views. They make a distinction between Jewish people and the Israeli state.

It is true, some of these people are anti-Zionist, in the sense that they want a secular, democratic state without any official religious markings in which Jews, Muslims, and Christians can all live together in the "Holy Land" with each group's rights guaranteed, and that such a state would bear the name "Palestine", but even these people are a minority, and what gives the issue real resonance is the centrist moderate group that wants to see a Two-State solution and is unhappy with the amount of Gazan civilian casualties that are currently ongoing, as well as upset that Biden supports Netanyahu even though the latter has obviously no commitment towards a Two-State solution.

The real anti-Semites are on the far right. IMO, scratch a far rightist, and there is a very high chance you will find that they do not consider Jews to be white, but because Jewish people can pass as white, they consider Jews to be "spies" who use their passing to try to undermine white society. Hence why you see people like Elon Musk liking an anti-Semitic tweet. They are being dragged into the far right. These are the real anti-Semites, people who dislike Jews as such.

The distinction between the Jewish People and the State of Israel is minimal in the eyes of the anti-Semite Left these days.  The violent protests on campus, the deliberate intimidation of Jewish students, the total disregard for their humanity, let alone their safety, indicates a hate for Jews on the Left that is real, deep, and attached to Jewishness, and not just to "Zionism" and "Desire for a Secular State" vs an Ethnostate.  Yes, anti-Semitism on the Far Right certainly exists, but THIS anti-Semitism, this LEFTIST anti-Semitism is mainstreamed in a way that the other is not.  A Hollywood star or a politician that ranted about the Rothschilds (for example) would be excoriated publicly and thrown to the winds of Cancel Culture, and deservedly so.  A conservative elected official would be drummed out of their party's caucus, with a primary challenge in the making, complete with financing of the opponent already arranged, and deservedly so.  But the anti-Semites of today's Left (Tlaib, Omar, and the rest of "The Squad") are entrenched within the party; they may not be near the centers of power, but they hold a share of influence, they're not going away, and they're mainstreamed by the media.

I don't deny the anti-Semitism of some of the elements of the Far Right.  But the denial and minimization of Leftist Anti-Semitism here ought to be noted.  And called out.

[MyLifeIsYours]

Running an aging Biden again is an almost deliberate play to reduce younger voter turnout, regardless of his position on the war in Canaan.

Never mind Donald Trump who is 77 years old and a incompetent buffoon. Hard to get much of the population excited, never mind younger voters.