Were we separated at birth? You have had the time and stamina to put my exact thoughts to "paper." And I, still what one might call a socialist, take issue with the insistence on the part of what hopefully is a negligible faction of leftists that any vote is "a vote for genocide" due to Harris's complicity with the Biden administration and that all else, all cumulative domestic suffering and any problem that presents to Americans matters not a whit in comparison to the atrocities occurring n the Middle East. We in the U.S. face only trivial problems, they say -- the moral imperative is to stop the genocide, a scenario that renders meaningless our concerns about racism, sexism, ageism, and classism at home.
The left dismiss those of us who support Harris, even if we do not "identify" as liberals per se, with the usual arguments, including refutations that what we are witnessing is fascism. They argue about which labels mean what, citing texts that are obscure to most, without any reflexive consideration for how they favor and further single-minded categorical and semantic distinctions to bully others into silence. Arrogance.
Were we separated at birth? You have had the time and stamina to put my exact thoughts to "paper." And I, still what one might call a socialist, take issue with the insistence on the part of what hopefully is a negligible faction of leftists that any vote is "a vote for genocide" due to Harris's complicity with the Biden administration and that all else, all cumulative domestic suffering and any problem that presents to Americans matters not a whit in comparison to the atrocities occurring n the Middle East. We in the U.S. face only trivial problems, they say -- the moral imperative is to stop the genocide, a scenario that renders meaningless our concerns about racism, sexism, ageism, and classism at home.
The left dismiss those of us who support Harris, even if we do not "identify" as liberals per se, with the usual arguments, including refutations that what we are witnessing is fascism. They argue about which labels mean what, citing texts that are obscure to most, without any reflexive consideration for how they favor and further single-minded categorical and semantic distinctions to bully others into silence. Arrogance.