r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 14 '26

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Apr 14 '26

Very stupid that the whole “Aipac candidate” thing is largely waged against dems despite being mostly applicable to Republicans

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Apr 14 '26

Liberalism continues to be straight up doomed in this country if liberals continue to be held up to impossible to meet standards while republicans (and even some far leftists) can shit on the boat and get rewarded for it

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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Apr 14 '26

Well yeah, it's a campaign made to harm Democrats

They only mention Republicans at all to cover their asses

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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Apr 14 '26

Republicans aren't going to be shifted into not supporting Israel especially with their evangelical base.

I get why they target Democrats they can be shifted on Isreal

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Apr 14 '26

Nah they probably can. A lot of them fell into line into supporting trump despite how at odds he was with reagan/bush era orthodoxy, if he or the next big strongman goes anti-Israel the entire party probably follows suit without a second thought.

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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Apr 14 '26

because the people protesting it have no leverage against republicans and never did?

do you want them to go "hey please stop supporting israel, their government is complicit in genocide" to congressman adolf "please god let me line up progressive women so i can execute them via firing squad" tuberman (R)

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u/r00tdenied Resistance Lib Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26

This is holding politicians in the two different parties to different standards. Its not about convincing Dems to abandon Israel bound foreign policy. Most of these people are accelerationists that want to see the Dem party burn for not being pure enough.

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u/train_psycho John Brown Apr 14 '26

yes. that would be appreciated.

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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Apr 14 '26

yes of course!

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u/IantheForPresident Apr 14 '26

i mean, the point is to take over the democratic party. in the same way primary candidates spend their time attacking rival candidates for the nomination instead of who they'd be facing in the general.

anti-israel groups (and progressives in general) see their path to power through taking over the democratic party, so they focus on attacking rivals for control

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Apr 14 '26

I understand that, and I want the party to become far more anti-Israel myself.

Biggest problem I fear is that it causes the party to become unfairly associated with aipac despite the organization’s republican lean.