Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

Good-Bye, Ron DeSantis My once ardently-supported candidate has shockingly revealed himself to be a merely fair-weather respecter of Americans' rights and a mindless enthusiast for injustice, oppression and outright war crimes. WITH CONSIDERABLE UNHAPPINESS, I have been compelled to withdraw what had been my ardent support for Ron DeSantis' campaign for the White House. DeSantis has reflexively aligned himself with Israel, even after the onset of its grossly disproportionate and frankly murderous 'collective punishment' of Palestinians (half of them children) as punishment for the violent prison break on October 7 by a handful of the millions of Palestinians whose parents and grandparents were dispossessed of their land 75 years ago and who have spent their entire lives wasting away in captivity, squalor, poverty and misery in ghettos like Gaza. Worse, DeSantis has distinguished himself (negatively) by issuing blatantly illegal orders suppressing the speech rights of students in Florida universities, an offense which is way-over-the-top even amongst the disturbingly widespread Pavolvian responses on behalf of Israel in most other quarters of the political landscape. (Glenn Greenwald has a good presentation on this subject here.) In these behaviors DeSantis shows himself willing to open his mouth and exercise power entrusted to him even while appallingly ignorant of the subject in regard to which he acts (here, the history of Israel, both in its formation and its actions since). He also shows himself to be very dangerously blind or dismissive in regard to the very real dangers to Americans (and the rest of the world) in doing anything but calling for Israel to shake itself awake and start the painful process of acknowledging and beginning to undo the wrongs it has committed against the Palestinians. Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/260.htm#1