Is the Gaza genocide as divisive in US politics today as the Vietnam War was in its time?
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Is the Gaza genocide as divisive in US politics today as the Vietnam War was in its time?
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@evan 99% of republicans are totally in support of genocide. I'd say 50% of liberals just are so overwhelmed with shit in the USA they try not to think about it. And of those, many are like, "WE CANNOT SUPPORT PALISTINE BECAUSE WE MIGHT LOSE POTENTIAL VOTES AND MONEY FROM RICH PEOPLE!!!!"
The remainder of us.... feel it's basically hopeless and have spun into a spiral of depression and defeatism
Which, I suppose, is probably the goal of this administration.
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During the Vietnam War, 58,000+ US soldiers were killed. There was a comprehensive draft, and then a draft lottery. There were millions of casualties, overall, and direct US military involvement. The war raged for 20 years. The WWII generation was responsible for our involvement, and the post war generation resisted mightily. So, as awful as Gaza has been, US citizens have not been as personally involved as in the 1955-75 Vietnam War. -
Interesting answers. I'd say, yes, but it's not apparent yet.
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@evan 99% of republicans are totally in support of genocide. I'd say 50% of liberals just are so overwhelmed with shit in the USA they try not to think about it. And of those, many are like, "WE CANNOT SUPPORT PALISTINE BECAUSE WE MIGHT LOSE POTENTIAL VOTES AND MONEY FROM RICH PEOPLE!!!!"
The remainder of us.... feel it's basically hopeless and have spun into a spiral of depression and defeatism
Which, I suppose, is probably the goal of this administration.
@coldfish the polls are very different from what you're assuming. About 71% of Republicans support the war; about 8% of Democrats. 25% of independents.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/692948/u.s.-back-israel-military-action-gaza-new-low.aspx
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@evan
During the Vietnam War, 58,000+ US soldiers were killed. There was a comprehensive draft, and then a draft lottery. There were millions of casualties, overall, and direct US military involvement. The war raged for 20 years. The WWII generation was responsible for our involvement, and the post war generation resisted mightily. So, as awful as Gaza has been, US citizens have not been as personally involved as in the 1955-75 Vietnam War.@mizblueprint the question is not whether US citizens were involved, but how much we are divided.
One interesting thing is this analysis of polls from the time:
https://news.gallup.com/vault/191828/gallup-vault-hawks-doves-vietnam.aspx
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@mizblueprint the question is not whether US citizens were involved, but how much we are divided.
One interesting thing is this analysis of polls from the time:
https://news.gallup.com/vault/191828/gallup-vault-hawks-doves-vietnam.aspx
@mizblueprint it's interesting to compare the Vietnam war at its least popular, when about sixty percent of Americans surveyed said that it was a mistake. Today, about 32% of Americans support the war in Gaza, so about 68% do not. The question is phrased differently, but the numbers are close.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/692948/u.s.-back-israel-military-action-gaza-new-low.aspx
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