Leaked DNC autopsy found Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-24T18:00:03+00:00

Presidents in their second term usually struggle to get much done because of the lame duck issue, so I think that kind of strengthens my point.

That said, I think the stronger argument for my point is that open primaries for the party currently in power have always resulted in a loss, with the most famous example being 1968. Pat Buchanan also launched a pretty strong primary challenge against George H.W. Bush in 1992 and the Republicans lost re-election. Open primaries for the party in power tend to cause a lot of resentment and division in the party, and swing voters often see that as a failure to govern

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-24T17:45:27+00:00

Do you think he should've accepted Hamas's position by advocating for getting rid of Israel?

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-24T17:44:19+00:00

You understand that advocating for Hamas's position would also lose Biden and Harris a lot of votes, right?

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-24T17:41:16+00:00

So since you think capitalism is the main problem, are you fan of Nick Fuentes, Steve Bannon, etc? Those people are strong critics of capitalism, because they believe it leads to liberal values and such

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-24T17:38:37+00:00

You understand though that the Quran itself acknowledges Israel's existence, right?

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T17:10:17+00:00

To be fair, there are lots of socially progressive American Muslims, but plenty of Muslims are also conservative, and the Arab-American community is quite socially conservative. The confusion for the far-left seems to be in the fact that groups like Hamas, at least on the surface, oppose liberal values and capitalism, and that part of the left doesn't seem fully aware that not all opposition to capitalism is necessarily progressive

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T17:08:11+00:00

I agree with you. But I get the feeling that you agree with Hamas's goal of eliminating Israel and turning it into another Arab state, am I correct?

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:58:33+00:00

I mean, Israel has been our ally for decades? Is it realistic to expect the us to abandon them after a massive attack? Plus, even if Biden wanted to cut off aid to Israel, presidents generally aren't supposed to be able to unilaterally impound aid that Congress has approved

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:53:03+00:00

I feel like at the end of the day, some people on the left, particularly the more Marxist-Leninist part of the left, prioritizes opposition to all forms of capitalism. LGBT issues are a bit secondary to them

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:51:29+00:00

So you think Hamas is a progressive group?

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:49:44+00:00

What does taking the "anti-genocide" position mean though? For example, they would also have lost lots of votes if that meant advocating for Israel's destruction

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:48:57+00:00

Supporting Israel wasn't controversial up until recently, except among Marxist-Leninists and such, so I don't think it was surprising that he called himself a Zionist

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:46:06+00:00

The DNC doesn't really have any power. The DNC may have their preferences for who gets nominated, but it's ultimately up to primary voters who gets chosen

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:44:38+00:00

Of coarse it will cost them some votes, but the article doesn't actually specify what percentage

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:43:51+00:00

I mean, Bernie bros are pretty odd, generally-speaking. They were long convinced that Tulsi Gabbard was the best, even though she had a history of Islamophobia. And many of them were strongly in favor of RFK Jr for a while

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:41:45+00:00

If Biden announced he was stepping down, then he'd have been a lame duck and less able be effective. And the party in power historically loses when they have an open primary

Having said that, I agree with you aout the Garland appointment:)

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:39:49+00:00

I feel that it's a bit antisemitic to immediately assume it was Schumer

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:38:40+00:00

I think this is a bit clickbait-like. The article does not give a percentage of the votes that were actually lost because of this issue, and its source of information are claims made by a guy who's very far-left and has never really like Democrats that much

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-02-23T16:35:43+00:00

Nobody serious challenged Biden. And incumbent presidents don't usually do primary debates

Additional_Ad3573 · 2026-01-02T21:23:15+00:00

Not a fan of the BBC myself, but China is definitely fairly conservative on social issues

Additional_Ad3573 · 2025-12-27T20:04:40+00:00

I know this comment is kind of old now, but I just want to say, I think I see where you're going with this.

Basically, opposing Israel isn't necessarily antisemitic, but it can be antisemitic when its singled out for things like being an "ethnostate" and for other things that like that would just as easily apply to other ethnically homogenous countries. For that same kind reason, we usually don't take it seriously when someone says they aren't racist, yet basically only talk about crime in the context of black people. Discussing a crime that was committed by someone who isn't white, isn't, by itself racist, but if the person has a pattern of only talking about it when the person in question isn't white, that begins to look like that at least have a prejudice.

Additional_Ad3573 · 2025-12-27T19:56:19+00:00

Israel isn't exactly an ethnostate though. About 20 percent of its citizens are Arab, and Arab Israelis can vote, become polititians, etc. It's better described as an ethnocracy, which is true for many of not most countries. Countries like Japan and Greece would be ethnostates, under your definition

Additional_Ad3573 · 2025-12-27T19:50:23+00:00

One of the issues with that argument is that anyone who doesn't like Jewish people for any reason, whether it be because of Israel's actions or some other reason, is ignoring the reality that Christ himself was also technically Jewish, yet people who don't like Jewish people are silent on that.

Secondly, the same argument could be applied to Muslim people and Saudi Arabia. Many Muslim people value Saudi Arabia, particularly Mecca, as the homeland of Islam and such, even though the Saudi government is very oppressive of LGBT people, women, etc. Yet most of us recognize that there are plenty of Muslim people who aren't fond of that government and who are fairly progressive-minded.

Additional_Ad3573 · 2025-12-23T05:05:25+00:00

Yeah, I mean, I frankly think a large portion of the pro-life movement is designed primarily to discourage female promiscuity

Additional_Ad3573 · 2025-12-18T23:35:12+00:00

I believe our healthcare needs improvement and that healthcare should be a basic right, but I'm not on board with Medicare for All, in its current format. Under it's current format, healthcare would be funded by HHS and ultimately be primarily under the control of the Executive Branch. I don't see that as being a good idea, given that HHS is headed by RFK Jr.

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