Five@slrpnk.net to Michigan@midwest.socialEnglish · 20 days ago‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gazawww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agoWouldn’t a more effective plan be to vote her in and then have protests, letter writing, strikes, media campaign, etc., to change U.S. policy? Because with Trump there is no negotiation unless they can buy him, and even that’s not a guarantee.
minus-squareBanzai51@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoYou have to understand that most Arab Americans in Michigan are lower ‘c’ conservative and frustrated the Republicans won’t accept them. Unless the Dems completely abandon Israel to total destruction, they’ll threaten to vote R.
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoIf that’s true, it’s a terribly shortsighted strategy.
Wouldn’t a more effective plan be to vote her in and then have protests, letter writing, strikes, media campaign, etc., to change U.S. policy?
Because with Trump there is no negotiation unless they can buy him, and even that’s not a guarantee.
Exactly
You have to understand that most Arab Americans in Michigan are lower ‘c’ conservative and frustrated the Republicans won’t accept them. Unless the Dems completely abandon Israel to total destruction, they’ll threaten to vote R.
If that’s true, it’s a terribly shortsighted strategy.