Is the left's reaction to Bidens foreign policy comparable to LBJ in 1968?
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« on: November 14, 2023, 11:31:23 PM »

In both scenarios the left-flank of the Democratic Party was vocally opposed to the incumbents foreign policy vision despite being part of the same party. Do you think that the two scenarios are comparable or are there differences?
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« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2023, 10:48:52 AM »

No. American soldiers aren't dying there. Young americans aren't being drafted to fight in Gaza.
At the end, most left leaning college students will vote agaisnt Trump.
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2023, 03:38:59 PM »

Uhhh no, reaction to Biden saying he supports Israel is not even close to opposition to the Vietnam War as a cultural force.
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« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2023, 03:52:56 PM »

the left back then (correctly) hated LBJ.  Today's left hates everything, they don't have the energy to give much hate to Biden.
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« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2023, 06:04:56 PM »

Except Biden still got us out of Afghanistan and has kept Russia, more or less, at bay. That's still more powerful than whatever Israel stance Biden is giving, which hasn't even cost any domestic lives.
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« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2023, 01:51:29 PM »

In kind, yes, but not degree.
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2023, 07:19:40 AM »

In both scenarios the left-flank of the Democratic Party was vocally opposed to the incumbents foreign policy vision despite being part of the same party. Do you think that the two scenarios are comparable or are there differences?

No, this is quite different. Israel is not directly part of U.S. policy the way Vietnam was.
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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2023, 11:58:51 AM »

No. American soldiers aren't dying there. Young americans aren't being drafted to fight in Gaza.
At the end, most left leaning college students will vote agaisnt Trump.

They mostly voted against Nixon then, too.

(I like this analogy because I think Vietnam, while prosecuted stupidly, was fundamentally a righteous and just war that America was correct to fight, and so these movements just end up always on the wrong side of history.)
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