…Practically speaking, a progressive or liberal vote for Cornel West is a vote for Trump.
A vote for Robert Kennedy Jr. is a vote for Trump.
A vote for NoLabels is a vote for Trump.
Any vote right now that doesn’t intentionally protect this nation from the MAGA movement is participating in it and putting generations of Americans in harm’s way.
The fact that so many refuse to acknowledge this is evidence that they haven’t been paying attention or lack self-awareness.
This same strident, selfish, and shortsighted attitude from Jill Stein supporters and Bernie or Busters in recent election cycles, helped pave the way for the dismantling of Roe V Wade and tens of millions of women losing their right to body autonomy.
That’s what bust became.
There was a cost to that stance and it’s now being paid by terrified young women throughout this nation.
It’s being paid by transgender teenagers.
It’s being paid by Muslims and Jews.
It’s being paid by migrant families.
It’s being paid by poor and hungry people.
It’s being paid by everyone at the mercy of a weaponized Supreme Court.
That’s what bust looks like…
Many progressives and liberals point to the perceived lack of response from the Biden Administration to the horrors in Gaza as their moral dealbreaker, a bridge too far for them to support him or his party.
I understand that position on an emotional and even moral level but not an intellectual one. I just don’t see any of these people playing the movie ahead a few months:
If they make this supposed moral stand in defense of Palestinians and Muslims, and in doing so help usher in a second Trump term—how is that good for anyone?
Which of the people they’re trying to help by rejecting Biden, will be helped by another Trump presidency?
Specifically who gains human or civil rights in this scenario?
How precisely is anyone safer or healthier, here or in Gaza or anywhere?
How is empowering MAGA Republicans going to do anything but further endanger Muslims, immigrants, Palestinians at home and abroad?…
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