Maybe Biden realizes that a center-right country should not be governed by a leftist president for four out of five elections. Things fall apart. |
There is nothing left about Biden or his cabinet. |
The democratic candidate wins by millions more votes every election cycle. We are not a center right country. |
Also, there’s nothing left in Biden’s brain, but that’s an entirely different observation. |
it net/net I don't think this hurts him at all. Maybe it could be important in Michigan, and that's about all |
This is probably a troll post, but perhaps you haven't noticed that not everyone is pro-palestinian. There are a lot of pro-Israel people in this country and many of them are democrats. If Biden did whatever it is you want him to do, then those people would be saying he's out of touch. The president is never going to do everything you want. That's not the way the world works. If this is your top issue and you think that Trump's policy on the conflict (if you can even figure out what it is) is closer to yours, you should go ahead and vote for him. |
While he needs to come out and support everyone’s first amendment rights of protest, he really needs to distance himself from the voices specific to the campus activists. He will lose way more voters in the middle if the republicans can associate him with their words and actions than he will progressive voters that support them. |
You're probably very young. I remember in 1972 - everyone I knew on campus was against the war and all of us we for George McGovern. Come November 1972 we got a huge wake up call. Nixon won every single state except Massachusetts and DC. This pro-Palestine stuff might be marginally important in Michigan, bit that's about it. And November is still a long way away. |
I might agree with you, but the tell is the "senile stubborn old man" comment. That's ridic and not what is going on here. |
Most of the people in this country care about their money and their children’s lives. Israel endangers both. The only people that care about Israel is the corrupt power class. |
Most people care about whether they are better off now than 4 years ago. I think the answer is a resounding "no." |
How many times has the right wing president won the popular vote? Once in fives time and that was 20 years ago. This country is not center right. The political system has been constructed to weigh urban and suburban voters as less vs urban voters. It takes 20 states to equal California’s population yet those 20 states have 40 senators while California has 2. |
I support a two state solution and the rights of Palestinians not to get murdered en masse.
However, Biden is hemmed in on the Gaza War question because the GOP is rabidly anti-Muslim and anti-Arab, and therefore, when it suits them, pro-Israel (they're rabidly anti-Semites at other times). And some progressives are repulsed by all the dollars and US weapons being used to kill Gazans, sent to Israel by the US. This is a politcal hot potato for Biden's campaign. His best bet is redirection to abortion, his record in infrastructure and healthcare, his many reforms, etc. |
Less than 2 percent of Americans regard the conflict in Gaza as their most important issue. Social media wildly distorts the perceived influence of a tiny minority of people. There are just a few thousand pro-Palestinian protesters. The other 300 million Americans have other concerns and are broadly sympathetic to Israel. |