The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has declined to seriously target Rep. Ilhan Omar after helping unseat Democratic Reps. Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman.
    • jonne@infosec.pub
      612·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, losing Cori Bush sucked. She singlehandedly forced Biden to extend the eviction moratorium, just because of her own life experience.

          • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
            184·
            5 months ago

            She really shouldn’t, though. In our FPTP system without ranked-choice voting, that unfortunately means that instead of her or the candidate AIPAC corruptly funneled in millions to boot her out, a Republican could take the position instead, and we really can’t afford that in the House this race.

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
              51·
              5 months ago

              In our FPTP system without ranked-choice voting, that unfortunately means that instead of her or the candidate AIPAC corruptly funneled in millions to boot her out, a Republican could take the position instead

              That’s how it works with presidential elections and others where the party nominees are the ones with the most support.

              AIPAC buying the primary notwithstanding, she would be by far the best known and most popular candidate to run and being cheated by a genocide apologia factory and their handpicked empty shell candidate is an excellent additional narrative to run on in addition to her stellar work in Congress.

              • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee
                51·
                5 months ago

                If she couldn’t win the primary, how can she win the general? Not like AIPAC will just stop influencing the election.

                • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  5 months ago

                  People were caught off guard. It’s extremely liked that most of the people swayed by the smears AIPAC paid for didn’t know that the deceptively named United Democracy Project was actually hidden foreign election meddling.

                  It’s much more likely that people know now and I don’t know about you, but I’d be pissed off if I was them.

            • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
              1312·
              5 months ago

              Fuck that. A Democrat that votes against democratic policies; another Joe Manchin or Kirsten Sinema is worth less than the dirt on my boots.

              And if that means running as an independent to beat a democrat, so be it. I’m not here to support a team.

              I think she should absolutely run as an independent. AIPAC candidates are basically fascists.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            102·
            5 months ago

            She’d probably be the favorite. A lot of people probably didn’t know that they were being gaslighted or even that AIPAC was the source and are rightly pissed off about it.

            Whether she will run, though, I have no idea.

            • njm1314@lemmy.world
              122·
              5 months ago

              I think you’re really overestimating the Palestine issue on the general voting population. She made some other major mistakes that hurt her in the primary. Coming out so strongly against the infrastructure bill that has been such an immediate positive impact in so many people’s lives for instance.

              • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
                102·
                5 months ago

                Coming out so strongly against the infrastructure bill that has been such an immediate positive impact in so many people’s lives for instance.

                She voted against it because the good parts didn’t gi anywhere near far enough, the bad parts such as mass privatization of critical infrastructure went too far, and the DNC leadership split the best parts off into a separate bill that they then let die, in spite of explicitly promising not to.

                It’s nowhere near as good as it’s made out to be by neoliberals, the billionaire-owned media, and other loyalists to the party leadership, and she was right to withdraw her support after they broke that promise and doomed the parts she was championing.

                • njm1314@lemmy.world
                  72·
                  5 months ago

                  Yeah I’ve heard her arguments, it’s just that voters don’t appreciate those arguments clearly. They’ve made that loud and clear to her in particular. Most voters would prefer to take one step forward than standing still. They prefer a little good to a hypothetical perfect. They would rather politicians do things that help them and their community right now. So when you go out against a bill that people can see tangible effects from, people who are desperate for something anything to help them, you’ve kind of missed the point of Public Service. It’s a lesson some progressives never seem to learn. Progressive change is made, just as the word implies, progressively. Step by step by step. You can’t make things better if you never start making things better.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
      133·
      5 months ago

      same here; hearing about all of the people who have been displaced by aipac was starting to make me thing that money was the end all and be all of our world.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      5 months ago

      AIPAC basically of stayed out of this race. They’ve been picking races with tight polling, then throwing down in those.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    114·
    5 months ago

    Suck it, AIPAC! Maybe we can start getting money out of politics now that more and more people are alert to all the bullshit in the world

    • rbesfe
      31·
      5 months ago

      Please do some research before boasting about beating a $25 campaign donation

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    31·
    5 months ago

    Omar campaigned with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) toward the end as liberals looked for a decisive win after their recent electoral setbacks. Sanders said at a Minneapolis rally that he wanted to ensure Omar “wins and, in fact, wins big.”