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This was clearly in evidence in the 2024 presidential contest. Post-election analyses showed that Vice President Kamala Harris lost the backing of a wide range of Democratic and Independent voters because she refused to make a decisive break with President Biden’s support for Israel. Instead of listening to her own instincts and being more critical of Israeli practices and more vocal in support of Palestinian rights, she listened to the establishment political consultants who cautioned against “rocking the boat” on this “sensitive issue.”

This gets the matter entirely backwards. Harris listened to her values that told her Palestinian lives aren't worth fighting for. It's not that she couldn't find the courage to do the right thing, it's that she did not care... And it's hard to reflect on your values, to realize that maybe you supported some really shitty things. She hasn't yet done that, maybe someday she will, but don't hold your breath.

They know, they don't care.

The current DNC is operating on two principles:

1. It's still 1995, and Israel is America's lil' darling colonizer startup that most moderate Americans are happy with. Yay for white middle-east, go 'get 'em you wacky apocalypse-prophecy fulfillers. Go go magic old-money.

2. They have the same donors as the GOP and serve the same masters.

To me, the headline was never the contents of the autopsy, but the fact they tried to bury it.

The current leadership knows how to be better and chooses not to.

We don't need an autopsy, just like we don't need another article telling the public, who has already long since realized this, that Israeli influence and Zionism in our politics is toxic and that we need to cut ties with it going forward. We really just need a few things to happen. Least likely of all, if Democratic leaders finally pulled their heads out of their asses and started paying attention to doing their jobs and winning over voters, rather than just focusing on their bank balances, it would potentially preclude the need for more if they had the fear of their constituents turning on them to keep them in line. Failing this, it would be great if more people got politically active and, along with taking action and organizing between elections, they showed up to the primaries and voted out assholes like Charles Schumer. Finally, it would be great if current electeds and progressive candidates who manage to primary zionists in the party actually began taking steps to initially isolate the remaining Zionists, with the aim of eventually expelling them from the party if they don't renounce Zionism and stop screwing over the civilians of Palestine (along with the other nearby countries Israel is constantly trying to steal land from), this country as a whole, and the world at large. The Israeli state, as it has existed since its founding in 1948, is a force for evil in this world, and needs to be stopped entirely. In a just world, Israel would be as isolated on the world stage as North Korea is at present.

The Democrats need to clean house already, and stop the shit with "Oh, but we're a big tent party, so we have to be open to a littlel support for colonial genocide amongst our members." Everyone alive knows this is a losing issue for them and is only getting worse by the day. The names of leading Democrats, like Jeffries, Pelosi, Harris and Schumer, are all going to be black marks in the pages of world history in the future. Quislings for a new age, but now they can claim they're multicultural, since they're not just reviled in their home land, but by anyone with a conscience and sense of morality the world over who comes to learn of their existence and actions. And I'm sure they'll still be trotting out that Schumer is hated only by antisemites, Pelosi only by misogynists, Jeffries by white supremacists, while Harris gets the distinction of being hated by racists and misogynists. It'll be just as effective at getting them back in the good graces of their constituents as it's proving to be now.

Trump is going to war fucking with Israel and we're talking about the autopsy on dems? wtf?

The republicans can fire trump at any second they want.

They knew it a year ago...

That's why the voting members of the DNC didn't go with another AIPAC sponsored neolib as chair.