US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib voted “uncommitted” in the Democratic presidential primary election in Michigan, instead of supporting President Joe Biden.
Tlaib, a Palestinian-American lawmaker and vocal critic of Israel and the US-backed war in Gaza, said she was “proud” to take this stance to express opposition to the Biden administration’s strong backing of the Israeli war effort.
Said Tlaib: “When 74 percent of Democrats in Michigan support a ceasefire yet President Biden is not hearing us, this is the way we can use our democracy to say ‘Listen to Michigan.'”
Tlaib’s move comes as opponents of the war in Michigan, home to a large Arab-American community, have called on voters to vote “uncommitted” in the primary to express their dissent.
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She’s a hundred percent correct.
That’s democracy.
(And I do not believe she is a jew hater.
Justtge ones that support Israel)
wonder why in the world is she still in office now and going on and about the genocide in israel over and and over again
@Happy New Year.
Your wrong. This isnt democracy, its populism. Democracy, would not allow for her to do this, as John Adams famously opined: Morality and virtue are the foundation of our republic and necessary for a society to be free.
That means, that the majority rule isnt the foundation of democracy, but morality is. The US wasnt founded as a democracy rather as a republic. The difference being resting the decision and focus away from a monarch and toward the people. But never was the intention to be populist.
Even her name invokes evil. RaaSHAida ; a true kelipah !