Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me:
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks agoI guess it depends on whether they’re referring to elected officials or the electorate, because support for the genocide is only mainstream among elected officials and not the electorate.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The electorate supports genocide by electing these officials.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
When most of the AIPAC candidates were elected the electorate was largely ignorant of Israel-Palestine.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Do you think the electorate is still ignorant of it? If not, do you think they’ll vote for anti genocide representatives this year?
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
They’re not - or at least no one can reasonably claim ignorance now - and they have already voted for anti-genocide representatives in special elections and primaries thus far. It won’t be a wipeout across the board, but AIPAC will lose their stranglehold on US politics this primary season and they know it. They’ve been doing damage control rather than trying to get pro-Israel candidates elected recently.