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I'm surprised how people are surprised that this kind of stuff happens every DNC every four years.
It's a Spectacle intended to avoid anything controversial or negative about the party.
It doesn't make it right, it's never been right, but it does make it the norm.
People who are shocked that the Democrats would cover their ears and ignore the horrors of what's happening in Gaza for the sake of their televised self-aggrandizing bonanza must be young or naive.
This is par for the course. Both parties are filled with monsters. One party just has the monsters finally being honest about being monsters.
The time for making your case was during the primary season. That's when Democratic voters decide which issues are most important to them.
Time and again, Democratic voters indicated that women's rights and housing are among the most important issues. Gaza isn't.
If Gaza activists had succeeded in convincing voters that Gaza is more important than women's rights, then DNC speakers would be discussing Gaza instead of women's rights.
People did, and when "Uncommited" was an option, they did it. Then liberals on social media cried how it was supporting Trump to vote in democratic primaries.
And Harris wasn't an option as the front runner, it was Biden and no one else with above 1%. She was part of the VP ticket, but VPs don't generally decide policies, they're there to break ties in the Senate and as a backup plan if something happens to the President.
When running, we criticized and people said it would hand the election to Trump. Biden won the biggest tally of votes possible, mine was in there. When mid-terms came up, and we wanted to still help with COVID and the groups it harmed, it was said that handed it to Republicans.
It feels like its never a good time to ask for something that helps Americans. We vote in primaries, we ask nicely, we protest, we organize, we vote blue no matter who, because Trump is the default of "Fucking never in a million years." and we're still called traitors who want him to win, because we want money sent to Ukraine than Israel's genocide.
Primaries are lot more than just voting for the top of the ticket. There are hundreds of downballot candidates involved. More important, it's when voters decide what issues need to be addressed.
Nobody named "women's rights" ran for office this year. But women's rights activists succeeded in persuading Democrats that it is the most important issue this year.
This is what Democratic activism is really about, you are basically competing against other activists for the attention of your own party.
Finally, if you vote for Democrats in November then nobody should consider you a traitor.