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[MadameButterfly]

108. It was unrealistic to think they would do nothing

Just as it was unrealistic for young people in the 60s to refrain from anti-Vietnam demonstrations over worry that they might help elect a Republican. In that case they got the change in the primary they sought, and but for an assassination the resullt would have been excellent.

I was upset at not having a real primary and a choice. I thought Biden was too old to run. I thought he should stand up to Netanyahu. It made me mad enough not to vote in the primary. I feared those two factors would give us Trump. I didn't need any ginning up.
Of course I was always going to vote for the Democrat in the general.
But my community was not bombed. I don't know anyone who died. If it's your family, I think it's hard to be rational. Am I also mad at the people who didn't vote for Kamala over this? Sure.

I just think we need to move some of the focus from a traumatized population to seasoned leaders who who should have listened and understood how these communities would respond. "Leave it blank" gave them a way to make their complaint known in the part of the election where the results were already a given. The rage was already there. Maybe there are some who needed that one way to give voice so they could justify voting Democratic in the general. We don't know what the numbers would have been without "Leave it blank." But I'm guessing if Netanyahu had been required to stop the bombing and let aid in to keep our protection, we would have seen a shift.