You seem to value winning more than voting your conscience, if I am understanding you.

When Iran retaliated some 8 weeks after the leading Hamas negotiator was murdered in Tehran, that retaliatory strike was marked by compassionate restraint. When western leaders were in front of microphones, all they could say was that their support goes out to Israel. Both Harris and Starmer made no mention of Iran’s attempts to avoid loss of life. This isn’t a moral failing.

As Ben Norton likes to point out, Israel is America’s unsinkable runway in West Asia. Americans think and react in moral terms, in large part because the media reinforces that perspective, but Harris and Starmer are contracted agents who will not survive politically if they speak freely. Everybody knows this, and AIPAC is betting that a wide majority of voters like you, will scratch the itch to spite the candidate you hate instead of finding a candidate that articulates your values. Or comes close. The deck is stacked, and a blue or red will likely win, and that means humanity loses.

Do everyone a favor and avoid the false choice.