r/JewsOfConscience • u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist • Jul 22 '24
Discussion Dementia is Disqualifying, but Not Genocide
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?
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u/Klutzy-Pool-1802 Ashkenazi, atheist, postZ Jul 22 '24
Biden doesn’t appear to have dementia. Don’t fall for propaganda. He speaks lucidly and at length, with great command of varied issues, and occasionally he has a brain fart. That’s not dementia. He’s always done that, and it’s also normal to have more brain farts as we get older. He also has a stutter, mostly under control, but sometimes it comes out.
It drives me crazy how people get into information silos. We need to be better consumers of information.
I take your point, that support for genocide or other war crimes should be a huge black mark on somebody’s record. That’s not how the US has ever worked. Most Americans are very distant from the impacts of our foreign policy - in information silos, even, where we don’t see a lot of the impact. We’ve always divided the world between our close allies and those we basically disregard. Biden is a product of this system, and I suspect any president will be. I don’t think anyone succeeds politically in this system without being pretty comfortable in it and with it.