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It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.Biden’s admin miscalculated that they can lose the Muslim vote and still be fine. The miscalculation was they weren’t expecting to lose so many other people. This “war” is only getting more unpopular.
People survived four years of trump before. And if they feel that not voting for Biden is the best long term strategy to change the US’s foreign policy that includes enabling genocide then I can’t blame them. I also can’t blame people if their conscience won’t allow them to vote for a genocide enabler, and if they feel that within the democratic process this is the best way to hold elected officials accountable. Instead I blame the immoral elected officials for allowing this to happen and for not listening to what their base wants. And for lying to and gaslighting their base and trying to manipulate them to go against their conscience and humanity and to be ok with what’s happening.
The 'lesser evil' argument has always struggled to convince people, and that'll only become more difficult the longer Biden's administration sticks to their position.
In theory it should be obvious from his track record, past statements, the people he surrounds himself with, ... that Trump's position on this is significantly worse than Biden.
However that's not how it tends to work out in practice.
"Vote for the guy who's gonna contribute less to the genocide" is the logical position but the argument sounds horrible.
I think what's currently happening in the primaries is the best way of going about it. In the general election, there's the risk of putting the Palestinians in 4 more years of an even worse position.