Dementia is Disqualifying, but Not Genocide

[u/PreparationOk1450]

It's really disturbing to me that dementia is disqualifying for Joe Biden, but him doing a genocide is not. That shows how Palestinians are viewed in America by the political class.

If only Hitler had dementia, maybe we could've gotten rid of him sooner, since the Holocaust wouldn't have been a problem for him with his domestic constituency.

What do others think?

[u/atav1k]

While I agree I also think you can’t nearly separate the two. Under Biden’s watch the US internally and externally is recognized as aiding a genocide. It’s hard to say if Dems would have turned on him so quickly if he wasn’t already orchestrating mass atrocities.

[u/Saul_al-Rakoun → u/atav1k]

No, the Democrats are fine with the atrocities. This is just how the capitalist system operates, and they are a party of capitalists (this is separate from the rubes who vote for them). At something like ten million preventable deaths per year in order to keep capital accumulation going, Gaza's death toll is close to a rounding error.

The two problems are the upper midwest has a sizable Muslim minority bloc and the Democrats' "who else are you going to vote for?" plus ethnic brokerage politics grand strategy has run aground on the shoal of "Zionism pits the Muslim and Jewish democratic base against each other" on the one hand, and on the other hand Biden's implosion at the debate. While the national party rarely shows any interest in actually competing in elections and prefers a "If you don't vote for us, something is wrong with you" message, some of its members in elected office have career aspirations. And let's be clear, Biden's inability to overcome the Muslim-Jewish voting bloc contradiction threatens the survival of things like NATO which are necessary to keep the US's empire running, and the Democrats' core constituency is "people and institutions that need and keep the US empire running".