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Single Issue Voters will save the world! (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Godric to c/politicalmemes

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

are... you talking about the elected officials, or the people who elect them?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I’m talking about the clowns that throw a temper tantrum over single-issues and shout from the mountaintops that no one should vote until they get their way.

They don’t do shit during the in-between election years and then suddenly show up to demand a bunch of shit that they make out to be incredibly simple, but refuse to listen to people that know FAR more about it than they do.

And when it’s all over- they reroll as victims of their own design.

[–] sozesoze 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But they ... DO something about this issue in-between elections. They are protesting and demanding the Biden administration to change their course. That is political action. What else are they supposed to do? Anything other than playing with the political power that's left to them?

Everybody against those demanding a harder approach against Netanjahu's genocidal campaign and threatening their votes is talking about how these people have to save democracy by voting Biden regardless of what he's doing. Well, isn't that part of a democracy?

[+] [email protected] -9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Of course it's part of a democracy. But the point everyone's making is that it's a very dumb thing to do because it's likely to reduce your democratic power in the future.

[–] sozesoze 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is the president not at fault at all when he doesn't change his course? Also a majority of people seem to favor a ceasefire. Why not at least for campaign purposes actually enforce a ceasefire from Netanyahu?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That largely depends on how you ask the question. Based on this article:

Support a ceasefire? 64vs13%

Support a unilateral ceasefire (as in: what's effectively what's being asked for Biden to threaten to pull support for today)? 28vs44%

I'm sure if you as who supports 'peace in the Middle East' you'll get a large majority, but that decision isn't really on the table