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The problem is literally no one cares about Palestine. They should, but they don't.
You chose the worst fucking hill to die on. Some brown people getting exploded in a place most people can't find in a map on the other side of the world is nothing to an average working person compared to their rent, utility or grocery bills going up.
Quite a few people care about Palestine. That's a "problem" in so far as there are no pro-Palestinian political currents in the American political scene. So you've got these people eager to support candidates, but no candidates for them to support.
At some point, "I'm going to vote for the second biggest pro-genocide party on the ticket" isn't the message that gets people to the polls. Dems lost 15M votes over four years, as they shed their reputation of competency and compassion for one of compromise and corruption. Trying to force TikTok to sell its operations to an American Tech Company, on the grounds that it was too friendly to Palestinians, was just one more straw on the camel's back.
Dems couldn't bring themselves to do anything about that either. All they could do was inflate the rate of profit enjoyed by the NASDAQ. And once they'd accomplished that task, they were of no more use to the Silicon Valley bag men.
This is delusional. Majority of voters don't think about this nonsense at all.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5198616/2024-presidential-election-results-republican-shift
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/democrats-ipsos-poll-abortion-lgbt.html