Longer Step: Ideas for Justice and Sustainability

  I keep returning (mentally) to the point made by a Wash Post writer, regarding Biden: You just cannot be directly responsible for the extermination/genocide of an entire ethnic group of people (Palestinian civilians), and have it swept under the rug because the US voters love you on so many other issues. It's like saying that Hitler painted some very nice watercolors, without saying anything else about Hitler. A Palestinian spokesperson said it well (my words from poor memory): 'What else could be more important than this?' Biden could've stopped military aid to Israel unless they did more to protect civilians. Biden could've inserted thousands of peacekeepers into Gaza, to protect/withdraw civilians even as Hamas was rooted out. Biden could've stopped the war with one phone call. This is direct responsbility. There must be some price paid for that. There were ways to avoid this level of civilian carnage. But one of my friends told me there is one thing even m...

  I'm not a single-issue voter; if I was, then for women's rights issues I would certainly vote for Biden. But we're facing other huge issues, on which I think Biden is failing grossly: Climate change, addressing the debt, and the Israeli war on Hamas are the best examples. Biden has leverage he could use, to mitigate Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, but instead Biden has encouraged it--enabled it, even. Israel's war will fail, and will only create more hatred of the US. Even if you don't consider the humanitarian aspect, it's not a very sound US strategy. And don't forget that in every war we've supported since WW2, we lost. Even if you don't care about the death/maiming of US soldiers and the world's civilians, our supporting war hasn't often been sound strategy (though in Ukraine, it may be). When turning away from a hapless Biden, what thoughtful person could vote for a narcissistic, self-aggrandizing criminal? But I would con...