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I am fully in favor of halting any further arms sales of any kind to Israel and, if necessary, moving U.S. financial aid to Gaza for humanitarian purposes. For the past several years, in my role as a member of our denomination’s investment committee, I, and we, have had investment brokers invest approximately $10 million in our investment funds into any denomination. We have voted and approved policies that prohibit it. Israeli companies that serve the military or facilitate illegal settlements in the West Bank.

The intern clearly knows nothing about diplomacy. Their position clearly shows their natural ignorance of inexperience.

Thomas J. Pauteur
Minnetonka, Minnesota
The author is a psychologist and a pastor.
 

I wrote this to express my gratitude to nation Interns appreciated Kamala Harris’ bold stand and provocative appeal to deny her genocidal record. I share their sentiments and vote for Jill Stein.

Denthusiastic GUralie
shaker heights, oh
The author is a professor at Case Western Reserve University.

However nationinterns deny their naivety, saying that politics in America is zero-sum. By not supporting one candidate, you are helping the other. So Americans, certainly people who care about progress, have to look at politics through the lens of better versus worse, and that political progress depends on the efforts of stakeholders and, yes, on stakeholders. We must hold fast to the belief that we will gain slowly through votes.

Repeal might have taken decades longer if early progressives had withheld support from Abraham Lincoln because of his views on Native Americans. If early progressives had withheld their vote for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt over incarceration, America’s most important social welfare expansion would never have happened. Nearly 50 million Americans have access to health care because progressives did not withhold support from Barack Obama, who is reluctant to support same-sex marriage. These people had serious moral flaws and made decisions that caused real harm, and history has rightly condemned their failures. But progress, even for the most progressive among us, depended on choosing better over worse.

The election before us is no exception, but what is at stake is precisely our democracy itself, which has already made progress and whose ability to make progress is still needed. Masu. It’s also not clear how helping Donald Trump, who used “Palestinian” as an insult, will help ease the suffering in suffering Gaza.

Politics is once again asking stakeholders to choose progress over perfection, recognizing that withholding support from better candidates only empowers worse candidates. . Progressives of the past eschewed the furious instinct to demand ideological purity at the expense of achievable progress. If today’s progressives cannot do the same, we will lose everything we have fought for.

IThailand GRoffman
Durham, North Carolina
The author is a student at Duke University School of Law.
 

I also agree with these young journalists. But now that I’m older, I’m on the side of making or trying to make the most practical decisions.

If Ms. Harris is elected, we can organize and cause her great pain. I’m sorry to have to say this, but there are too many hard-nosed Democrats who don’t think this through. In my 50-odd years of experience in politics, I’ve learned that many Democrats don’t learn and can often only be taught the hard way.

If Trump is elected, we can do business with him. And by the time goodbyes are said and we all leave the room, he’ll break the deal and laugh at how awful we are.

We may be in a better position if Mr. Stein is elected. But realistically, that won’t happen.

If you live in battleground states like Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Arizona, and Georgia and haven’t voted yet, give democracy a chance by voting for Harris.

If you live in a deep red or dark blue state, vote for Stein and help the Green Party expand its power.

Having visited thousands of times as a candidate, I know that nearly every American hears the words “Oh, that’s why you’re a Republican” or “Oh, that’s why you’re a Democrat” when making a decision. I came to the conclusion that I wanted to use it. They are too busy and don’t know much about politics. Therefore, they conclude that Dr. Stein and other Greens cannot yet participate in our political system. Therefore, they act the same way that mom and dad used to go to parties.

We in America are in turmoil. Regardless of what happens on November 5th, Trump may attempt a second coup. We must save our democracy (despite its current state), and that can only happen with a Harris victory. And through national organizing, we will put pressure and pain on the winners to force change in the rotten political system that brought us to this cliff.

BUzu Davis
Tucson, Arizona
The author is a member of Veterans for Peace in Tucson.