Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said policy differences toward Israel between her and President Biden won’t stop her from supporting him in the November general election.
“Of course,” Omar said Tuesday, when asked by CNN’s Abby Phillip on “NewsNight” whether she would vote for Biden if the election were held that day, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “Democracy is on the line, we are facing down fascism.”
“And I personally know what my life felt like having Trump as the president of this country, and I know what it felt like for my constituents, and for people around this country and around the world,” Omar continued. “We have to do everything that we can to make sure that does not happen to our country again.”
So support for continued democracy is not on the ballot then?
Not explicitly, no, it is not. If anything it would be a continuation of our constitutional federated republic, but that’s not spelled out either.
Is our constitutional federated republic important to the people who want to keep supplying arms to Israel?
I don’t know. You would have to ask them.
Well, given they’re (apparently) unwilling to give up sending weapons to Israel in order to defend this constitutional federated republic I’m gonna go with “no”.
I’m disappointed but not surprised. American munitions is one of our few industries in great demand worldwide, and lobbyists from arms companies are extremely numerous in DC.
I’m not surprised either, but I won’t be supporting it.
Trump has literally said he wants to be a dictator, so it’s more of the same or war and chaos and mass arrests and oppression
Sounds like cutting off arms supplies to Israel is a bargain then. Moderates should be happy to compromise on that in order to support continued democracy yes?
Sure, but he doesn’t actually have the power to do that unilaterally without consequences as some people think.
Are those consequences worse than discontinuation of Democracy?
Considering the potential consequences includes the risk of losing the election to Trump? They’re the same picture.
Let’s dissect that shall we? So you’re saying there are people who voted for Biden in the 2020 general election who would not vote for him in the 2024 general election if he cuts off weapon shipments to Israel?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/politics/polling-democrats-divided-israel-palestine/index.html
Unfortunately yes, it would be nice if the world was perfect, but it’s not
Here’s a crazy idea: Spend your time and energy shaming those people for being shitty.