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cardiganstarlet

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  1. And I think it’s tragic for anyone under 40 across the globe that the next US election is a vote between Biden and Trump. And tragic for anyone over 40 that hoped for a more progressive space by 2024.
  2. Respectfully, I didn’t say the democrats weren’t! Im Australian so have only been looking from the outside in (for a very long time). I also have quite a lot to say about how politics are run in Australia as well as many European parliaments. I would personally classify Democrats as a Conservative Party. Have always found it very odd that progressive policies are used against them by Republicans when that’s the last thing they represent. Yes, I very much will say that the Republican Party openly flirts with fascism and has done so increasingly for a couple of decades now. Party before people. Mitch McConnell is a (somewhat) living example. Sadly the Democrats have relied on being the lesser of two evils for too long. And to be quite frank, the bigger issue that Americans are faced with is that they seemingly only have two choices to vote for if they want to vote at all. Yet the establishment stills screams about the benefit of a two party system. Thats the insanity for me. How can only two parties benefit 300+ million people? Anyhow, I don’t mean to insult the American posters here.
  3. In a nutshell, the Jewish people had indigenous claims within Israel for many centuries. As did the Palestinians. The topic of a Jewish state slowly became a serious political conversation in the 1800s with the Zionist movement. Jews were not welcomed in many parts of Europe, historically suffered various penalisations and antisemitism was common, similar to racism and homophobia of the times. Or Islamophobia today. So in a way, yes WW2 and the holocaust brought it all to the fore and became something the Allied powers wanted to sort. The tragedy is that it should have been a two state solution from the start. This post is not at all intended to support Israel’s actions in this latest round of war (I see the Israeli government’s actions as genocide), just to shed a very minor light on historical background.
  4. Who would they choose? Kamala unfortunately is now a poisoned chalice.
  5. The UN is as powerful as the sum of its parts. When countries work together it can achieve more. There will always be a risk of stalling when major countries are obstinate. At the very least it provides a public forum on a global scale. Dialogue is better than nothing.
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