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what if realistically speaking the only current choice is between even a worse situation in middle east vs maybe slightly better than the status quo? I know it sucks but without changing how the elections in US works, you are not going to go from democrats vs republicans to a progressive major party in one election. In one election your only chance is to get slightly closer to it or quite further away.
It doesn't have to be a progressive party. Not doing a genocide isn't progressive. Lots of extremely conservative people over the world manage to do that. Right now, the resistance in the Middle East has fucking Iran in it and Turkey put out a heartfelt video about the long-term ramifications of not doing anything when the moment calls for it. These aren't bastions of poly blue haired progressives.
How do you guys think we live in a democracy when you are so scared to demand even the most base human morals from your politicians? People are frozen in fear to even ask their politicians to not enable an ethnic cleansing, in case it makes them seem like Trump supporter, and so they offer up the lives of even innocent fellow Americans as sacrifice, exactly like a Trump supporter. It's ridiculous, and yet you all shrug and accept it, because you've been trained into complacency as the country slowly keeps ceding more and more territory to save a democracy that doesn't even let its citizens vote on whether to eliminate an ethnic group or not, only whether to do it gleefully or with a frown face. This is all very... Weimar Republic.
Here's a question. When Trump is gone, will we not be able to fight because of Project 2028? Or 2032? We'll have to defend ourselves from the fascist overtones of of Presidential Candidate Ron De Santis, so we're going to have to round up the trans people and kill off the Jews in the hopes of getting more Republican voters to our side, to save our republic again? And again? And we'll have to shut up about that, too? If the line isn't drawn at genocide, then there is no line. Unless it's just at white people, which is starting to feel like the case...