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Buddy. Why are you so bothered by a guy not wanting to support a genocide? You draw the line when it's you on that line. Meanwhile the leftist drew it at genocide. Maybe ask yourself why your line wasn't fucking genocide.
Ask yourself why you are so selfish that fascism and ethnic cleansing wasn't a good enough reason for you to step back and go "oh shit" until it was people directly around you facing fascism and ethnic cleansing.
You don't care about bloodshed until it is your blood and your shed.
I find this an issue when I hear people discuss this point. In the previous US election you had two candidates who were effectively capable of taking the spot. Both of them were Pro-Israel because US interests abroad have always been genocide apathetic in the face of economic gains. So you were not voting for Israel / Palistine. You were voting for which regime you would have an easier time to pressure into Palistinian support and which one could be compelled to do the least amount of damage in the meantime.
If you chose abstention then yeah, people are gunna be angry because we're all fucking scared.
Abstention from voting as a protest measure has never worked but besides all that - It is too late now. Now instead of having space to fight against genocide abroad there's not much space because now Americans have to direct their energies to stopping everything else from going to shit. You won't be able to fight at all if this regime gets its way. It is time to move on and deal with the problems American's collective choices have wrought not defend the good intentions that got us here.
Speaking of abstention from voting. I've lost count of how many non-voters have told me that "not voting is not inaction". Often saying voting is going above and beyond. Saying that protesting is the bare minimum. These children don't understand it's exactly the opposite. You can protest and campaign for days, but if you end up never voting, then you didn't do the bare minimum and it was all pointless.
I also find it odd that these people always have the exact same talking points and the exact same failed "gotchas". It's almost like they are all watching/listening to some left version of Fox News.
I can understand their feelings of powerlessness in a two party system where both parties suck. Here in Canada the concept of strategic voting has been the norm for at least the past 20 years because people are aware of how shit the first past the post system is and how it forces us into a two party race we don't want but need to compromise on to make progress. We've spent that time trying to make viable third parties and that has worked to pressure the Canadian version of the Democrats to court more leftist politicians for support and minority governments with three parties have caused a steady march towards a better chance at fixing the underlying issue.
But unfortunately that's bred a backlash from people who think very much like Republicans. It was very rough watching Americans fall into a trap we Canadians have been stepping strategically around for so long.