I'm confused. How are democrats opposed to genocide supposed to vote for democrats over republicans in a manner which sends a signal of strong rejection of supporting genocide?
The choices were literally genocide materially supported by one party or genocide materially supported by the other party. Very vocal objections were systematically ignored by the Democratic Party and are still being downplayed and vilified to this day.
Thus simply voting democrat is not enough. We need to get the right democrats into power who explicitly reject the support of genocide and will engage in systemic democratic reforms. Otherwise we keep circling back to the same situation over and over again: neither party needs to represent voters' interests as long as they feel confident enough that we'll think they're not-as-bad-as the other party.
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