??? These two seem at odds with each other do they not? Blame democrats for Trump because Biden had a bad debate showing later on?
Blame Trump voters for Trump.
I only argue that if one is going to blame third party voters for a Biden loss, they should accept responsibility for their own decisions and the resulting consequences. Choosing a bad candidate and then blaming the voters for not supporting him enough is not a sign of introspection.
I know the potential consequences of my vote and I stand by it.
I think those who chose Biden in the primary are responsible for Biden's actions as president, in asmuch as they could be predicted, but not for a Trump victory. But I do think it was a strategic mistake.
Honestly if Biden cannot beat Trump, he's a hopeless candidate. But part of the reason that he's struggling to beat trump is that authoritarians rally despite flaws (many, many flaws that go directly against their core values), and everyone else simply doesn't. They pick one issue, like Israel, or being old, and die on it.
Have a little humility with the Israel issue. We don't know literally everything about the power dynamics in that region. I do understand and share your frustration with the US handling of Israel. But at least it's not a total strikeout with Biden. He's at least on the right side of Russia. Biden has backed off support of Israel in part because of vocal opposition like yourself. But it's predicated on the idea that he can still earn their support.
With all due respect, I was willing to rally around the party in spite of nearly aby flaw imaginable. I was expecting Biden to be deeply disappointing and I was still willing to vote for him.
The middle east is complicated and I don't have the solutions. There are, however, some thruths I think are clear from the evidence:
Israel is killing civilians and has no intention of stopping.
The Biden administration is directly funding and supporting the killing of civilians with American weapons. When Netanyahu complained that the US had slowed its weapon transfers, the US denied it and claimed to have no idea what he was talking about. That is not pressuring Israel.
This is not an "our systems of healthcare, incarceration, education, etc. are harmful to the population and must be changed" issue. This is a "we are aiding a military in killing civilians" issue.
To me, that is not complex. If you vote for Biden, you are directly supporting that activity, whether or not you feel bad about it.
You voted how you did in the primary, other people voted how they did. Biden was the result. The question is not what should we have done then but what to do now.
This is not a choice I take lightly. I am constantly reconsidering what the right action is here. Ultimately, I have so little expectation that we will ever improve if we accept the status quo, that I think the only way to move forward is to convince the DNC that their strategy is not working. I would like for them to realize this without Trump winning, but I don't know if that's possible. They certainly didn't seem to change course after Hilary lost.
For the record, if I didn't live in a safe blue state, I probably would have voted for Hilary in 2016, despite her many, many flaws. And it wouldn't have mattered because she was a bad candidate. I noticed in the primaries that her biggest advantage over Bernie was in southern, deeply red states. Hard to believe that didn't transfer to support in the general. I was hoping to see if things panned out similarly this time but there wasn't really a serious primary campaign to follow, sadly.
