Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.
The people who won’t vote aren’t hanging out on political message boards bud…
The thing is, you don’t have to be very politically active to not like genocide. It’s a very low bar, and that’s all that matters:
Running a candidate voters want to vote for.
Spend less time trying to sway millions of voters, and focus on getting a candidate they’d vote for into the general. That’s the entire point of a primary