The GOP is not the “party of Lincoln,” but the party of Lee Atwater. For 120 years, the GOP’s values were equality, democracy, & regulation of big business. Atwater saw strategic value in “wedge issues.” One of several wedge issues in the last election [FN1] was Gaza’s 1/7
occupation by Israeli military. [FN2] Middle East crises are not black-and-white. Nearly two millennia of anti-semitism was capped by The Holocaust. Jews who sought to escape were turned away by other countries and went to Palestine where people already were living. 2/7
Two former terrorists neared peace in 1979. Israeli Prime Minister Menachim Begin [FN3] and Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat [FN4] shared the Nobel Peace Prize. President Carter fostered an agreement. In 2024, intellectual “purists” refused to vote for V.P. Harris. Important to 3/7
wedge issue strategy: the party using it does NOT give specific plans. It’s nihilism. In 2024, the popular vote had to be close enough to hack. The GOP in 2000 and 2016 grabbed the Oval Office while losing the popular vote. In 2024 they gave trump a victory on paper. 4/7
Pres Biden must suspend 2024 election results of 2024's elections, else GOP hands Putin a dictatorship. The 6 GOP whores on SCOTUS will rubber stamp as ordered, for fear of waking up next to Khartoum. [FN5] Remember: follow Cassie Jackson on Facebook. 5/7
Footnotes:
FN1. By “last” I mean both the most recent election of 11/05/24, and quite possibly the last this country will hold.
FN2. Abdelhalim Abdelrahman, “Why Michigan’s Arab Americans Voted for Trump,” Foreign Policy, 11/13/24, accessed 01/04/25. 6/7
Footnotes:
FN3. Crenshaw, Martha, International Encyclopedia of Terrorism (1998), p. 287.
FN4. Reid, Donald, “Political Assassination in Egypt, 1910-1954,” 15 Int’l J of Afr Hist Studies, 632-34 (1982).
FN5. See, “The Godfather.” 7/7
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