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If this is the case, they have to publish the polling data that led them to believe it. Otherwise there's no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
On what planet do you think that American politicians "have to" do anything? They regularly break the law. It's a bicameral system and until you riot or DDD it won't change.
Also, your statement makes the assumption that the complexity lies solely in polling and voting, but politics is more complex than that. Israel is a nuclear power. For all we (civilians) know, they can be a regular destabilizing threat actor for the West, have damning blackmail that threatens the DNC, or has enough high powered offensive hacking actors that the US sees its alliance as more important than its ethics
By the way, this entire system of incentives illustrates the complexity of politics in a way that ought to dismiss any kind of black-or-white argument about really any political topic, including the (in my limited opinion, valid) condemnation of Trump.
"Maybe the Democrats weren't bought off by Israel, maybe they were being blackmailed. Wouldn't that be better? Or wait, maybe they just really like having access to Israeli spyware and hackers, and consider that more important than not murdering women and children! This is a complex issue and there's lots of possible reasons that you may not be privy to that the Dems could have sold their souls and the future of the american people for!"
I think you're trying to mock me but in fact this is exactly what I'm saying
I am very notably not defending Harris but lemmings have spent too much time on xitter to remember what critical discourse looks like
How are any of those things better or worthy of support? Those are all still completely ghoulish reasons to support a genocide. Youre presumably worried about russian interference with trump, but youre cool with the Israelis blackmailing kamala? We're just supposed to shrug that off and say "oh she didnt have any choice"?