Reply To: Upcoming showdown: Democratic Convention

jackk: 1. The groups previously identified as WOKE (a.k.a. the “Progressive Caucus” of the Democrats), have endorsed Hamas policy, while you can call it “terrorism”, other countries have used genocide as a tool of policy(including mass murder and rpe), and it seems to be a relatively common method of seizing someone’s territory for your own use. 2. The Supreme Court is not a bunch of political hacks, and they are quite likely going to say that whether electors chosen in states without free elections (opposition parties being banned) should have their votes counted is political and is to be decided by the Congress. 3. The Republican party is a coalition of a MAGA (Trump) faction, and the groups that predate Trump’s joining the Republican party (primarily the Reaganite factions and the former “Tea Party” fiscal conservatives). 4. If a considerable number of persons question the legitimacy of an election, it will collapse the currency and credit almost immediately; an election in which the opposition candidate apparently won, but was banned for political reasons, would collapse the government.

However the platform fight for the Democrats will be a critical issue. Biden is supporting the internationalism that goes back to Kennedy, Truman and Roosevelt (at least post-Pearl Harbor) and that includes support for Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, South Korea and Philippines – and the Progressive Caucus is clearly anti-Israel and not supportive of a military buildup necessary to oppose the Sino-Russian-Iranian Axis. The platform debate on Hamas will highlight the fault line within the Democrats, and may prove to be a critical turning point, one way or the other, in American (and Jewish) history.