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I'm not getting my hopes up.
Republicans are openly planning for genocide, sure, but the Democrats are actively aiding and abetting genocide right now.
They will not suddenly find their principles and start treating the Reublican party like the existential threat they are. They will not take any action which might ensure Trump loses the election. They are more afraid of losing their campaign financiers than the campaign.
Yeah Dems are cancelling abortion, planning massive deportations, taking away tans kids healthcare. Shut the fuck up Russian.
Biden could issue an executive order requiring hospitals in red states to perform abortions or else lose their medicare funding, but won't.
Biden could reverse his position on deportations, instead he issued an executive order to reject all asylum requests by undocumented immigrants.
Biden's attempt to apply Title IX to trans folks like myself has been nice, but it's not nearly enough to make me forget what he's spending my tax dollars on.
Biden could start doing good and incredibly popular things like ending our support for genocide, but that would piss off AIPAC and those lobbyists opinions' mean more than those of voters.
You can tell yourself that I'm a russian bot if that makes you feel better. I hope the comfort of dismissing all criticism as foreign influence is worth the consequences of repeating all the mistakes made in 2016.
I interpreted "Dems are aiding and abetting genocide" as Gaza. If not, my point is irrelevant and I misunderstood you in the first place.
My response was that they aren't actively bringing active domestic genocide like Trump and P25 have proposed.
If I understand your point correctly, neither have anything to do with your response about Dems doing nothing proactive to be progressive. That's a separate problem with which I agree with you.
That's only the most egregious example, I have to be nonspecific because of how many ethnic groups the Democrats are helping wipe out. Between letting the Navy poison Hawaii's water supply and supporting the ongoing economic blockade of Puerto Rico, you're spoiled for domestic options.
Right on cue!