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‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza

www.theguardian.com ‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza

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I get not voting for Harris. Voting for Trump, though? That's contemptible.
"Thank you for your vote. Now leave this country."
Do they stupidly think trump will be better?
- Wouldn’t a more effective plan be to vote her in and then have protests, letter writing, strikes, media campaign, etc., to change U.S. policy?
  
  Because with Trump there is no negotiation unless they can buy him, and even that’s not a guarantee.
  
  You have to understand that most Arab Americans in Michigan are lower 'c' conservative and frustrated the Republicans won't accept them. Unless the Dems completely abandon Israel to total destruction, they'll threaten to vote R.
  
  Exactly
- No, I doubt that they're stupid. They don't think that they other guy will be better. However, I also doubt that Sophie Scholl thought that her death alone would stop the Holocaust. Sometimes there's a moral line that you just can't cross.
  
  Voting for trump (or proxy voting for him) is crossing a moral line.
  
  And brings them further from their goal.
  
  Rage voting doesn’t fix anything. It stands to make it worse.
  
  I can’t understand some people’s drive to vote in a tyrant because they’re annoyed by a centrist.
  
  I wish Harris was coming out more strongly, or at all really, against Israel's genocide. I can't imagine Trump will do anything substantial to reduce the conflict, certainly not more than Harris will.
  
  I do not understand the Sophie Scholl analogy. Sophie distributed anti-war leaflets, among other things. She did not advocate voting for another party that would likely just continue the war, while also removing other freedoms, into power.

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