Here is every Democrat who voted to take funding away from universities that boycott Israel:
- Jake Auchincloss (Massachusetts)
- Kathy Castor (Florida)
- Gilbert Ray Cisneros Jr. (California)
- Jim Costa (California)
- Joe Courtney (Connecticut)
- Henry Cuellar (Texas)
- Donald G. Davis (North Carolina)
- Lois Frankel (Florida)
- Laura Gillen (New York)
- Jared F. Golden (Maine)
- Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)
- Greg Landsman (Ohio)
- George Latimer (New York)
- Susie Lee (Nevada)
- John W. Mannion (New York)
- Jared Moskowitz (Florida)
- Donald Norcross (New Jersey)
- Jimmy Panetta (California)
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)
- Josh Riley (New York)
- Bradley Scott Schneider (Illinois)
- Hillary J. Scholten (Michigan)
- Kim Schrier (Washington)
- Brad Sherman (California)
- Darren Soto (Florida)
- Haley M. Stevens (Michigan)
- Thomas R. Suozzi (New York)
- Shri Thanedar (Michigan)
- Dina Titus (Nevada)
- Ritchie Torres (New York)
- Juan Vargas (California)
- Eugene Simon Vindman (Virginia)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida)
And vote for whom? Republicans LOVE third party candidates because they tend to take more votes from democratic candidates. Run as an independent that is against the state of Israel and AIPAC will come in and fire over 30mil to your opponent and likely end your campaign in most states.
We do see more people running as or adjacent to the DSA so we will see how it turns out.
They really don’t like third party candidates actually. It’s a tossup on whether it hurts or helps them. If they had it their way, it would only be two parties.
What good is it if my state candidate is republican-lite and just sides with the GOP on shit like this?
That they don’t side with them on other things. The news cycle keeps everyone only thinking about and upset with the last 3 days or so and wipes anything but the most major events that came before. Get rightfully pissed about this, but apathy towards the process because you don’t immediately get what you want instead of incremental change is how we end up alternating between moderate to centrist democrats after a republican majority and republicans after a moderate democratic majority when apathetic voters stay home.
That’s a lot of words for “Palestinian lives aren’t as important as my own comfort”.
That’s where you’d have to have a coordinated protest vote to be able to focus the message of why you’re doing the protest vote, otherwise it’s an exercise in futility and just the Republican won.
As much as I disagree with the Michigan Abandon voters at the time, still do to a degree mostly due to the whining afterwards, that focused, poignant, abstained really had a outside impact even when overall it did nothing to the overall state election. I think it’s something that really did push progressives forward in this latest primary and why that 30 million fell flat.
I’ll keep looking forward to the next batch of primaries and how progressives and the DSA move forward.