Mick,
In two paragraphs you say:
A: Netanyahu does not listen to anyone.
B: Biden is in league with him.
I share your horror and understand the need to vent. If you want to discuss the horrors of occupation and colonialism I'm sure we would agree 100%.
But, two things: imagine If Biden had immediately gone running to the press and said, "Bibi Netanyahu is a gangster and Israel is a fascist state and earned the attack with decades of colonialism and settlements." He would A: have lost any influence with Netanyahu; and B: doomed his chances for reelection, becoming an immediate lame duck in the process.
You have seen the impact of the National Rifle Association on US politics, and the trail of dead children and teachers and others that has resulted from that. AIPAC dwarfs the National Rifle Association, by every metric.
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I don't think you quite appreciate the precarious nature of democracy in the United States at this moment.
American democracy, and in fact global democracy at large, is now and has for quite some time been under siege by a dizzying array of anti-democratic forces all around the world, using our social media histories and the now AI-enriched tools of Information/Influence/Psychological Warfare to target and influence our opinions. These forces are united in support of the American right wing.
As for the American right wing, they have made no bones about what they intend. They intend to replace the American system with an unabashed, Christo-fascist dictatorship, using the US military to enforce it on day 1. (Please see "Project 2025" for a more complete view of their ambitions.)
Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit thousands of conservatives to Washington, D.C. to replace existing federal civil service workers it characterizes as the "deep state" to further the agenda and policies of Donald Trump.
The development of the plan is led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative U.S. think tank, in association with other organizations including the Conservative Partnership Institute and the Center for Renewing America. It envisions widespread changes across the entire government, particularly with regard to economic and social policy and the role of the federal government and federal agencies. The Washington Post reported the plan includes immediately invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and directing the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue Trump adversaries.
Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit thousands of conservatives to Washington, D.C. to replace existing federal civil service workers it characterizes as the "deep state" to further the agenda and policies of Donald Trump.
The development of the plan is led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative U.S. think tank, in association with other organizations including the Conservative Partnership Institute and the Center for Renewing America. It envisions widespread changes across the entire government, particularly with regard to economic and social policy and the role of the federal government and federal agencies. The Washington Post reported the plan includes immediately invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and directing the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue Trump adversaries.
Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit thousands of conservatives to Washington, D.C. to replace existing federal civil service workers it characterizes as the "deep state" to further the agenda and policies of Donald Trump.
The development of the plan is led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative U.S. think tank, in association with other organizations including the Conservative Partnership Institute and the Center for Renewing America. It envisions widespread changes across the entire government, particularly with regard to economic and social policy and the role of the federal government and federal agencies. The Washington Post reported the plan includes immediately invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement and directing the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue Trump adversaries.
The American right wing know that they cannot be elected on a platform of raw fascism. Though raw fascism is exactly what the right wing base has been baying for for decades, there are not enough of them to win a national election.
So, the information/psychological warfare experts have redoubled their efforts in peeling off the left. The US uses an absurd system to elect the president, known as the Electoral College. It is too absurd and arcane a thing to explain here, but at its essence, the country as a whole is given 538 "Electoral College" votes, which are divided in a semi-arbitrary way between the states.
In order for a president to win, they must win 270 votes. If neither party achieves that 270 number the election is thrown to the House of Representatives; the branch of Congress now exemplified by people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz, a severely dysfunctional and corrupt body.
This would be a disaster equivalent to, if not even more fatal than the disaster that brought the Nazi Party to power in 1933.
Tarring Biden with Netanyahu's brush is not only wrong, it's wildly self-destructive.
