I … Don’t believe you are correct here. The US has the most destructive military (non-nuclear) on the planet. The country simply does not have the appetite to actually commit blood, sweat, and money to this war. If they start striking the US, the US people will see it as an existential threat and be far more willing to dedicate as many resources as nessesary to eliminating the threat regardless of the fact that the US started it. That would be bad for everyone, but especially Iran.

It is far better to have the US population largely split in their support for the war effort.

Who knew the quote:

“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

Could work in reverse.

Yes, letting the guy who actively supports the genocide win was a much better option. I’m sure she learned her lesson.

I’m a bit confused, are you saying Obama was not center left and occasionally right leaning? I would have sworn he relied on market-based solutions for healthcare, supported for free trade agreements, aggressively used executive military power and drone striked the shit out of the middle east, and the maintained many Bush-era tax rates. He even had a beer with a cop who arrested a black man trying to get into his own house as an “apology” for stating the cop acted stupidity (the cop did) during his first term. So, he went to the right during his actually presidency. Am I mis-remembering these things or something?

Id honestly appreciate if you could educate me on this. My understanding is that Biden never even supported socialized healthcare. I’m a bit surprised to hear anyone say he was left of Sanders.

It was how Biden won his election, so… it has won elections. It was just a bad strategy for Harris.

I mean… trying to win over moderate, independent, and anti-Trump Republican voters seems like a reasonable approach given the way the current voting system works.

If anything, it seems that Biden and the DNC fucked us by not having a primary. Biden should have committed to a one and done. She may have fucked us by accepting the nomination without a primary, but I honestly blame Biden for that far more.

I do agree that Kamala didn’t help the situation all that much. But I still don’t see how she really fucked us.

I’m not a Harris fan by any means, but what did she do to “fuck us?”

I mean, her stance on Israel and Palestine wasn’t great, but it was massively better than Trump.

They are trying to go back to a system where the rules are universal but selectively enforced against people they consider to be “other.” Their shock and confusion is when the rules they create also apply to them.

They can’t comprehend a world where laws are applied equally. In this situation, she is arguing that the law was only applied equally because the “left” spread information that the law would need to be applied equally, and would have negative consequences for everyone.

Basically, she wanted white privilege and got the oppression she was trying to force on others.