Refusing to support genocide is neither vote shaming nor purity testing. You put a lot of links in your post, but most of them seem to come from the mainstream left such as PBS and Robert Reich. I don't consider such sources particularly credible.
That said, you're not going to convince me that the genocide of Gaza is in any way a "lesser" evil. Genocide can only be the greatest evil. So unless you can prove that that Joe Biden isn't complicit in genocide, you aren't going to convince me to support him.
Of course, there's a lot more that Joe Biden has done that renders him absolutely unacceptable to any person with a conscience. Luckily I don't have to support either one of the major party candidates, since Jill Stein is running in my state.
Lesser evil voting only works on behalf of the lesser evil, and in this case that's Trump. It also requires that we accept the notion that voting for the lesser evil won't end up contributing to increasing the evil of the entire system, which is exactly what has been going on for decades.
Clearly you have bought into the DNC's assumptions about Trump being the ultimate evil and genocide somehow being a price worth paying to save us from Trump. I don't agree. To be honest, I don't see how anyone could agree.
I'll point out that the DNC ALWAYS portrays the Republican presidential candidate as the ultimate evil, the newest incarnation of Hitler. Trump was a shitty President, but he wasn't Hitler. We survived him. The children of Gaza are not surviving Biden.
That said, it's incredibly naive to believe that a political solution is possible for America any more. The blatant rigging of the 2016 and 2020 primary elections showed that; Bernie sold us out each time, for whatever reason. The oligarchs own both parties, the voting machines, the media, the legislators, the judiciary...they own everything except we the people ourselves. That's why they are doing everything they can to destroy us.
We will not find salvation in the political process. We cannot vote the boot of the oligarchy off our throats using the oligarchs' own political system. That's not how it works. There is only one way to try to assure the survival of our species, and that is ending the murder-suicide economic and political system which is killing our planet.
It's really quite simple: We fight, or we die. No other solution is possible. Throwing children into the maw of the military-industrial complex not only won't help anything, but makes us complicit in the most inhuman act imaginable.
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