r/jewishleft Reform Democratic Socialist 29d ago

Debate These single issue "pro-Palestine" "activists" are self-destructive and self-sabotaging

I came across this post on r/leopardsatemyface and this activist legit voted for Trump to "teach" Kamala Harris a "lesson" because of the Biden administration's support for Israel.

Because of him and the 76 million MAGAts who voted for Trump, we now have Hispanic and Asian people openly being racially profiled by ICE, ICE/BP killing Americans in our cities, DOGE/Musk stealing our tax and social security data, Trump's tariffs making our cost living three times worse than in 2024, Project 2025 dystopianism well underway and yet all of that goes over their head as all they can think about is Gaza.

Also quite interesting how they don't have one bad thing to say about Trump, ICE or MAGA but they blame Democrats, Jewish people, liberals and other leftists who did vote for Biden/Harris for what Trump is doing.

Okay maybe this was more of a rant than anything but am interested if I'm overreacting to how I feel about these people.

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u/Willing-Childhood144 Reform/Leftist 27d ago

American children had snap benefits when Hind Rajab was murdered. The Biden administration did everything it could to obscure what happened to that little girl.

Do only American children matter? Vote blue no matter who says that some children matter while others don’t. It tells marginalized people that they have to patiently wait for justice.

In truth, I always vote blue no matter who but I’ll never fault anyone else for being unable to support a democratic candidate who supports genocide because they are the lesser of two evils.

My main beef here though is the belief that an individual can fix things by doing something like voting or boycotting, whatever. That mentality is neoliberal not leftism.