The orthodoxy of the people who still control the Democratic Party is this: you’re not supposed to believe in anything other than your own self-enrichment, status advancement and fealty to the party itself — and those who believe in anything bigger or more idealistic are the problem who need to be eyerolled, disempowered and purged.
Once you understand that this is the orthodoxy at the top of the party & its corporate media machine, literally everything about national Democratic politics and The Discourse makes perfect sense.
Every event, every machination, every political storyline is inevitably twisted into a weapon to advance this larger orthodoxy. It is an iron law of American politics — and has been even amid the disintegration of the society and the immiseration of millions of Americans.
I don’t really know what will change it (though there are glimmers of change in a few electoral contests). But at this point I can’t blame anyone for giving up. This orthodoxy is the defining political vector of our lifetimes. It will be studied by future historians…if there is a future.
@aziz0nomics She was a Semitic Jew living under Roman occupation in the province of Judea. Today, Palestinians are the majority Semetic people living in the Region. Most Israeli Jews are of Slavic ( like Netanyahu ) or Germanic origin.
WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?
A Palestinian farmer tending his land in the occupied West Bank refused to leave for an armed Israeli settler.
So the settler took him hostage, blindfolded and humiliated him while IDF soldiers stood by, guarding and protecting the abuser.
"Killing Palestinian children with bombs is not a crime; what is a crime against humanity is killing Israeli children, that is what is atrocious"
-Céline Pina,political essayist
@JakeTurx The casualty numbers are extremely underrepresented. They are only counting confirmed and identified bodies. The vast majority of the dead can not be identified and are not counted. Nobody is talking about the missing. Including missing puts it at > 10%
@Alinavisoo_life Alls fair, people are allowed to choose which movies they go see, she is not entitled to our business. This isn’t a dictatorship where we are forced to watch her shit. Plus she is a shit actress
@TheBeatBoyD1@TrackAIPAC She had not been charged with a crime, so you are factually incorrect. Even if she was charged with a crime, the US embassy is charged with ensuring the safety and humane treatment of all US citizens while they are abroad. They are to ensure all us citizens have legal counsel
@TheBeatBoyD1@TrackAIPAC You are incorrect sir. If a US citizen is being held without charge in a foreign country with an embassy that embassy should be involved in contacting that citizen and ensuring their well being