Yeah, the protests are not effective.
A problem for the party is that people are passionate for something that is not popular, even within the party. Ameliorating protestors who want to reward Hamas for endangering Palestinian civilians is likely to upset more swing voters.
It's a tough calculus when the race is so evenly divided.
If you have a question for me ask it in a non-loaded way, and I'll try to answer.
But I stand by what I said that the term "parents rights movement" is a bit vague, and that I didn't make any claim about Republican bigotry is vague. This should be acknowledged.
We have three different terms here. You shared a 17 minute video by a Youtuber that seems to respond to "parents rights" as a euphemism. As far as I can tell, you haven't actually said where you agree with the video, or why anyone should take it seriously.
That is distinct from a comment another poster made that parents have no rights. That represents a policy view which would be a political loser, but there are some arguments that parents don't have the right to send their child anywhere but public school.
And that itself is different from questions about what I think of the parents rights movement, which I did answer. And I have commented on racist parents as well as racist Republicans.
One comparison I heard in commentary was with the Boston marathon bomber.
Several of the jurors admit they thought he was guilty, but said that they were open to changing their minds if new evidence presented itself (it did not.)
That is what's needed with Trump. The main concern for prosecutors and defense is people saying the right things, but lying either to the judge or to themselves about whether they can follow the letter of the law even if they don't like Trump.
This is a good point.
There are plenty of jurisdictions where one party dominates, so a third party candidate could make a race interesting.
There's also a qualifications issue. Third-party candidates tend not to have credentials impressive enough for a presidential bid. Robert Kennedy Jr is a lawyer. Cornel West is a public intellectual. Jill Stein is a doctor who served in the equivalent of a town council. Jo Jorgenson is a philosophy professor.
The better long-term strategy would be to run for other offices to build the resume for a presidential bid.
Congress declares war, and determines how money is spent, so there is a lot that third party members can do.
I suspect many of the "from the river to the sea" people have a deeply wrong understanding of the situation.
It does often seem to be about making a statement rather than having any kind of concrete result.
It just occurred to me that the people pushing for ceasefire could also organize to bring attention to ways to send aid to Gaza without it going first to the Hamas fighters using everyone else as human shields.